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This panned out very well for Yair Lapid, who founded Yesh Atid a decade ago, but he managed to put together a real party with local headquarters and grassroots activists, and to portray himself as being in it for the long haul. Lapid is a consistent politician, a genuine leader.
For a time this was also true of Moshe Kahlon, who leveraged his great popularity as a result of his telecom reforms to found his Kulanu party. But he failed where Lapid succeeded. Everything relied on his personal charm, which was gradually eroded during his time as finance minister. Charisma or political accomplishments are a necessity for the success of a personality party, but they aren’t enough.
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With just a few weeks until the filing deadline to run in Israel’s national election on March 23, many parties began to fill out their electoral slates with both familiar and fresh faces.
Going it alone: Former Defense Minister Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon broke off from Yesh Atid on Sunday evening, announcing that his Telem Party would run independently for the first time. “The reign of Netanyahu is over,” he declared. Those joining him include former Blue and White Science Minister Izhar Shay, Hagai Levine, the former head of the Israeli doctors union, and anti-Netanyahu protest leader Gonen Ben-Yitzhak. Ya’alon also introduced and then quickly rescinded the candidacy of attorney Ayman Aburiya, after it emerged that he was facing a bribery indictment. Army Radio’s political correspondent Michael Hauser-Tov called Ya’alon’s lineup an “ideological salad… puzzling even today when ideology seems to barely have any effect on the ballot box.”
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Britain registers a new daily high of more than 53,000 coronavirus cases, as concern mount about spiraling numbers of positive tests and pressure on health services.
Government figures show 53,135 people tested positive in the last 24 hours, up from 41,385 the previous day, taking the overall number of cases to 2,382,865.
A further 414 deaths have been recorded within 28 days of a positive test, increasing the country’s toll to 71,567. AFP I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
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