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Haviv Rettig Gur is The Times of Israel s senior analyst.
An ultra-Orthodox man walks near an election campaign poster showing Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on April 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Israel’s election campaign is well underway, and Likud is already hard at work trying to disrupt the efforts of its most potent and dangerous challenger in the coming race, Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope party.
On Monday, the latest attempt to do so a vote in the Knesset House Committee to strip campaign financing benefits from Sa’ar-supporting Likud MK Yifat Shasha-Biton fell apart.
Ultra-Orthodox parties Shas and United Torah Judaism, normally Likud’s closest and most reliable allies, were nowhere to be found, and without their support, the attempt was doomed. ....

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