The rallying battle on the right has begun, and the intentions - on Ben Gabir

Ben Gvir's demand to serve as Minister of Internal Security is intended to draw back the mandates that the Likud is trying to take.

This, after Netanyahu launched the "Great Party" campaign to strengthen the Likud.

The ultra-Orthodox, for their part, accuse Ben Gvir of joining the left, but he did not remain guilty and reminded Gaffani of his connections with Lapid

Yaki Adamker

10/30/2022

Sunday, October 30, 2022, 9:00 p.m. Updated: 9:03 p.m.

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Ben Gvir: "In the next government I will ask to serve as Minister of Internal Security" (Walla system!)

A day and a half before the elections for the 25th Knesset, and the right-wing bloc began the last battle in order to win more mandates.

The chairman of Otzma Yehudit, MK Itamar Ben Gabir, stated this evening that he will demand the portfolio for internal security in the next government.

Ben Gvir is interested in this case since it became a significant party in the polls, but the timing of the announcement was mainly intended to transfer additional mandates to it, shortly before the elections.

Ben Gvir's statement came after Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu again today attacked the religious Zionist party led by Bezalel Smotrich and Ben Gvir, and in a video he uploaded on social media began with the "Great Party" campaign that he has been leading since last week. Netanyahu said that "the question is who goes The 61st mandate?", and added that "if he is not in Likud, and there is a future where he will even have one more mandate than Likud, then Lapid will form the government and then it doesn't matter how much Ben Gabvir and Smotrich received.

It has no meaning because we will all be in the opposition."

These words of Netanyahu are intended to damage the power of the Smotrich and Ben Gvir party, which according to the latest polls will receive 13-15 mandates in the upcoming elections, this despite the fact that the size of the parties does not matter but the size of the bloc, and if Netanyahu obtains the 61 mandates - he will be able to form a government even if Yesh Atid will be bigger than Likud.

This is not Netanyahu's only attack against Ben Gabir.

In an interview he gave to Gali Israel radio this morning, he wondered "Why is the media building up Ben Gabir like this, you asked yourselves? Because they know what Lapid's plan is. To take mandates from the Likud for Ben Gabir."

Ben Gabir (Photo: Mark Israel Salem)

Ben Gvir responded to these attacks and accused Netanyahu that there are elements around him who would like to form a government together with Gantz so that he would not be part of it.

According to him, "It's no secret that there are advisers in Likud who would be happy to draw Netanyahu into the government with Gantz. We saw this in 2009 when Likud put Ehud Barak into the government instead of the National Union, in 2013 they put Tzipi Livni in, and just before two elections they put Gantz himself to the government. It is a regular tendency of the advisors in Likud to draw Netanyahu into the government with a fig leaf from the left or the center, and now they would be happy to have the option to do it again with Gantz."

Therefore, he stated, he should be voted for.

His partner in the leadership of the party, MK Smotrich also reacted and said that "the order of the hour is to join hands" and "our strength is in our unity".

This is not the only arena where the right fights and shoots within the bloc.

Another confrontation was registered in recent days between the ultra-orthodox parties, with an emphasis on Torah Judaism against Ben Gabir.

Gafni today accused that Ben Gabir will go with Lapid and Gantz to the government.

In a statement to the media on his behalf, it is written: "It is not at all certain that Itamar Ben Gabir, as soon as it pays off for him, will go with Lapid and Gantz to a left-wing government, just as his friends Bennett and Shaked of the extreme right did."

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Netanyahu (photo: official website, Basheva, Channel 7)

Ben Gvir also responded to him and wrote: "So far, the only one who has already declared that he is closer to the left than the right, and does not stop hugging Ahmed Tibi - is Moshe Gafni himself. If there is a danger that someone will form a government with the left - it comes from Moshe Gafni himself."

The confrontation between the parties comes in light of a significant concern in Torah Judaism about the migration of thousands of ultra-Orthodox voters to Ben Gabir's party, against the background of disappointment with the ultra-Orthodox representatives.

Gafni is trying to stop the spillover and perhaps also bring voters back to Torah Judaism, and Ben Gavir is working for the same reason, in an attempt to maintain his power in the upcoming elections.

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