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Son of Likud founder Begin joins Saar breakaway party
Benny Begin joins the long list of Likudniks who opted to switch alliances before the election; says state institutions under attack by the government, which we must do everything to replace
Moran Azulay |
Published: 01.21.21 , 14:23
Benny Begin, son of Likud founder Menachem Begin, announced Thursday he is joining Gideon Saar s breakaway political party.
Begin joins a long list of fellow former Likudniks who left the party to join Saar, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confidant Ze ev Elkin, lawmakers Sharen Haskel and Michal Shir, as well as Knesset s coronavirus oversight committee head Yifat Shasha-Biton.
Israel
By Hamodia Staff
YERUSHALAYIM -
Gideon Saar, former Likud MK, founder of the New Hope party. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s hopes for reelection took another blow on Wednesday as Likud MK Sharen Haskel announced she is bolting to join Gideon Saar’s New Hope party.
Haskel became the third Likud MK, besides Saar himself, to leave Likud in order to challenge Netanyahu in the upcoming elections, March 23. She will have the company of MKs Michal Shir and Yifat Shasha-Biton, who left Likud in recent days, as well as Derech Eretz MKs Yoaz Hendel and Tzvi Hauser, who have resigned from the coalition.
Raoul Wootliff is the The Times of Israel s political correspondent.
Likud MK Sharren Haskel announcing her resignation from the Knesset and the Likud party, on December 23, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Likud MK Sharen Haskel announced Wednesday that she was resigning from the Knesset and joining the recently established New Hope party set up by another Likud rebel, former MK Gideon Sa’ar.
In doing so, she became the third Likud lawmaker to defect to Sa’ar’s fledgling party, which current polls suggest would be the second-largest in the Knesset after the March 2021 elections.
Announcing the move at a press conference held the morning after the Knesset officially dispersed with the government failure to pass a state budget, Haskel said she could no longer identify with the party that brought her into politics.