Former Likud party minister and former candidate for the presidency, Meir Sheetrit, returns to politics at the age of 69 and will run for mayor of Yavneh, where he lives and headed in the past, Yediot Achronot reported.

“I am running for mayor of Yavneh, a place that is my home, where I grew up as a teenager and stayed there until these days,” Sheetrit said. “I feel that it is back home after the national level.”

Sheetrit will deal with an independent list he is establishing these days.

Sheetrit, who has been out of the Knesset for three years, told Yediot Achronot: “I really loved the parliamentary work and the job as minister until I quit the national politics … I really love Yavne and I think there is room to go back to it and continue the momentum of development. Many residents of the city approached me and asked me to compete for the job, so I decided to participate in the mayoral elections that will take place in another four months.”

Sheetrit added that “even after all the positions on the national level, it is a great honor for me to return to a second round where I started as a young man and promote Yavneh from where it is now.”

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)