Lapid: "There are 4 members in the coalition with conflicts of interest - they cannot vote on the Deri law" (Knesset Channel)
Likud chairman and prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu is interested in making changes to the composition of his office, just before returning to the prime minister's office - this is what Likud sources said yesterday (Monday) to Walla! According to the sources, depending on the results of the tests, Netanyahu is considering "dismantling and reassembling" the bureau, and recruiting new people for senior positions in the aquarium that will surround him in the Prime Minister's Office.
In the last few weeks since the elections, Netanyahu's office has been a concoction centered on the public confrontation between the office's senior officials: designated chief of staff Tzachi Braverman and political advisor Ikki Cohen and MKs Tali Gottlieb and Distal Atabrian. The tensions began at the beginning of the month, when Gottlieb publicly attacked Braverman and Cohen, claiming that they had leaked details of a personal conversation with journalist Ben Caspit. Later Distel Atebrian also came out against Braverman, accusing him of another leak to Kespit and of having decided to "open a front" against Likud women.
Yesterday, the confrontation was renewed and even intensified, following Braverman's quotes published on Khan 11 against Gottlieb and Distel Atebrian, which he allegedly called Braverman denied the quote attributed to him, but Gottlieb reacted strongly on Twitter and claimed that he is a "chauvinist misogynist" and an "Ahithophel adviser" who harms the Likud and Netanyahu.
You want to do disassembly and reassembly.
Netanyahu (Photo: Reuven Castro)
The tensions and suspicions in Netanyahu's office also increased against the background of a series of publications about the internal conflicts and what was going on in the office, including a publication last week in Israel Today about the details of a conversation that took place between Distel Atbarian and the wife of Prime Minister-designate Sara Netanyahu.
Following the multiple leaks, some of the bureau's employees were sent to perform the polygraph tests.
At the same time, Netanyahu's political advisor, Cohen, turned to the 019 cell phone company this week demanding to reveal who is behind the anonymous text messages that have been circulated against him in the last two months, in which it is claimed that he is the leaker of the mercury.
Cohen threatens to take legal action unless the company tells him within a week who is the person behind the distribution of the messages.
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Designated head of staff, Tzachi Braverman (Photo: Flash 90, Tomer Neuberg)
According to Likud sources, another area that has increased tensions in the bureau concerns the Likud battle for the position of Speaker of the Knesset. Most members of Netanyahu's bureau support the appointment of MK Ofir Akunis to the position, while Braverman and MK Yariv Levin promoted the candidacy of Yoav Kish and Dodi Amsalem. And an internal conflict arose in the bureau.
Despite his imminent return to the Prime Minister's Office, Netanyahu has not yet decided or announced the staffing of senior positions at the Aquarium, nor the identity of the Prime Minister's Secretary or the Director of the Prime Minister's Office.
Netanyahu's current office is mostly made up of veteran advisors who have worked alongside him for many years, from the Prime Minister's Office and later to the Office of the Leader of the Opposition.
Braverman, the appointed chief of staff, served as the government secretary between 2016-2021, and media advisers Ofer Golan, Yonatan Urich and Topaz Luke have been working for Netanyahu since 2015. Another adviser to Netanyahu, Nebo Katz, who is expected to be appointed as Knesset-Government adviser and settlement adviser, also works in the office It's been almost three years now, and ultra-Orthodox advisor Zeev Fleishman joined the bureau in the last year.
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