A number of candidates in the Likud party primaries who did not achieve a realistic slot on the party lineup are challenging the integrity of that election and thee tabulation of votes. Three weeks after the primaries, after appealing the outcome to the party’s court, Tzipi Hotevely and Avi Dichter has ended and Hotevely will receive the 20th slot, pushing Dichter to the 32nd position, an unrealistic slot according to election polls. The court ruled to change their positions around.
Dichter and others feel the election was plagued with discrepancies and many unanswered questions remain. Dichter on Monday evening the eve of 29 Teves announced he is unwilling to accept the outcome in light of the known issues in the handling of that election. Actually, it appears likely the matter will be heard in the Jerusalem District Court.
Tensions are running high in the upper Likud management. In the past days, three election advisors to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stepped down, announcing that cannot continue in their positions. In one of the cases, the advisor stepped down when it became clear that his issues are with Mrs. Sara Netanyahu, not the prime minister.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Hopefully Likud wont get 20 seats and Hotevely will be unemployed.
Hotovely is a walking Kidush Hashem in the way she represents the Torah-observant community in Israel. There are those like Lior who will reflexively never see anything good in the State of Israel, but to anyone who is willing to think, seeing a Frum woman who covers her hair and is always dressed appropriately in the Knesset is something to be admired, not looked down on.
BTW – when first elected, she made a statement about her religiosity with her actions, not just her words. There was a photo being taken of Netanyahu with the victorious Likud candidates, with all holding linked hands aloft – except for MK Hotovely, who stood on the side clapping. Why? Because as a Frum woman, she would not hold hands with the male MKs. Says something about her, no?
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