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Prime Minister says he condemns violence by Likud party activists who crashed a campaign event by New Hope party leader Gideon Sa’ar. At the same time, Netanyahu sarcastically swipes at Sa’ar, calling him “irrelevant.”
“I condemn all violence against all candidates, and especially against irrelevant candidates like Gideon Sa’ar,” the prime minister says in an interview with the Religious Zionist website Kipa.
Sa’ar, a former Likud party stalwart, on Saturday night had accused Netanyahu supporters of disrupting a party event by throwing objects at participants, including stones and eggs. One person was injured.
He shared video that showed people carrying Likud flags arguing with his supporters and calling him a traitor, apparently outside the meeting.
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15th March 2021
What happened: As the election campaign enters the final stage, parties are sharpening their messages to try and maximise their votes on Election Day.
At a campaign rally last night Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested that anyone who has difficulty voting Likud should vote for the Religious Zionist Party.
Earlier yesterday, in his first campaign visit inside the West Bank, Netanyahu visited the outpost Givat Harel. He said: “I swear to you. If I create a strong right-wing government without a rotation, I will take care of the settlements and the authorisation of the young settlements.” (Young settlements are a euphemism for non-recognised outposts).
There were no injuries in the incident.
תקווה חדשה: המועמד עופר ברקוביץ הותקף הערב בשוק מחנה יהודה ע״י פעילי ליכוד pic.twitter.com/gRzu7zzZCv
Meron maintains a support tent outside Netanyahu’s official residence in Jerusalem to counter weekly demonstrations calling for the premier to resign, Channel 12 news reported.
Sa’ar wrote on Twitter about the incident, accusing Netanyahu supporters of attacking Berkovitch.
“We are not afraid,” he said, repeating a remark he made after the Saturday incident.
Berkovitch tweeted that after touring the market “Likud activists arrived and tried to confront and attack us. We do not recoil from violence and bullying!”
The confrontation with Berkovitch came a day after one person was injured when Likud supporters attacked a New Hope campaign event.
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel s US correspondent based in New York
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with then Education Minister Naftali Bennett during a plenum session in the Knesset, on December 5, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yamina party chairman Naftali Bennett traded barbs on Monday as the two right-wing party leaders competed for a similar pool of voters, with eight days remaining before the election.
Netanyahu called on Bennett to pledge not to join a government with opposition leader and Yesh Atid party chief Yair Lapid after the March 23 election.
While Bennett has not ruled out sitting in a coalition with the center-left Lapid, he has vowed not to allow the Yesh Atid chairman to be prime minister in such a coalition. Netanyahu has for weeks maintained that Bennett will nonetheless agree to serve under Yesh Atid in a power-sharing government in which the Yamina chair will be premier for half a term, arguing th