According to sources in the political system, about two weeks ago he announced Naftali Bennett Because he intends to end his position as the alternate prime minister even before the elections. However, senior officials in the government had reservations about his decision and asked him not to do so. According to the sources, a senior minister approached Levant and made it clear to him that the current government was built on the basis of the right of veto available to the two wing heads within the government: Prime Minister Yair Lapid, the head of the center-left camp, and Levant, as the head of the right wing within the government.
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“If you resign, the right will lose the right of veto and the partners from the center-left will have the exclusive possibility to lead moves or make decisions without the right having any ability to stop them,” the minister told him. Bennett agreed and decided not to resign, at least until the election. Bennett’s office responded: “Bennett acts out of national responsibility and represents in the government large parts of the Israeli right and center. He has decided to retire from political life for the time being, but intends to remain in his position until the elections.”
Meanwhile, the Minister of Defense and the Chairman of the State Camp, Benny Gantz, continues to strengthen his ties with the ultra-Orthodox. Last night he reached the state of forgiveness at the Or Ha’im Yeshiva presided over by Shas Torah Sage Council member Rabbi Reuven Elbaz. People who were there testified that the Minister of Defense was received with great respect and applause.
At the same time, a few hours before the expiration of the deadline for submission of requests to disqualify lists and candidates for the 25th Knesset yesterday, the “Life Voters Forum – of the bereaved families and victims of terrorism” submitted a petition to the Central Election Committee to disqualify the Ra’am party. The Plenum of the Central Election Committee, a body in which 36 representatives of the factions in the outgoing Knesset, headed by Judge Yitzhak Amit, will discuss the petition on Thursday.
In the petition submitted through the lawyers Asaf Tchelet and Eran Ben Ari, it is claimed that “it is a party that supports terrorism”. The petition is based on work by the forum’s research department, which lasted over a year, and includes alleged evidence of a connection between Ra’am and the financing and support of terrorist activity. claimed in the petition.
“Support for which no reasonable interpretation can be given other than complete identification with the armed struggle of terrorist organizations – in a way that justifies preventing them from running in the elections and in accordance with the Basic Law.” Chairman of the Ra’am faction, MK Walid Tahasaid in response: “There have always been those who wanted to disqualify Arab society by disqualifying Arab lists. They failed then, and they will fail now.”
In the meantime, on Saturday night there will be demonstrations by opponents of opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu at a series of intersections and bridges across the country, under the slogan “Saving Democracy”. In preparation for tomorrow’s demonstrations, Dr. Shakma Schwarzman Bressler, Michal Yairi Dolev and Hamotel Shadot, one of the organizers of the demonstrations, contacted yesterday , in a letter on behalf of the demonstrators to the police commissioner, RN Ya’akov Shabtai, in which he demanded that the police take care of the safety of the demonstrators throughout the country.