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Nobody wants Sa’ar to win Likud primary – except him

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Published: 20 December 2019

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Netanyahu is banking on a strong victory and so is Gantz, whose party would lose momentum if it had to face cleanskin in the March election

Blue and White's nightmare scenario: Sa’ar defeating Netanyahu (Al-Monitor)
BEN CASPIT: The Blue and White party needs Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a rival, or else it would lose its energy

If you come for King Bibi, you better not miss, by more than 30 percent (Haaretz)
ANSHEL PFEFFER: Though Netanyahu’s victory over Gideon Sa’ar in the Likud primary is all but assured, it is still a crucial election for determining Israel’s next prime minister

Netanyahu’s plan for winning an outright majority in the Knesset (Al-Monitor)
If he wants his right-wing ultra-Orthodox bloc to win 61 seats so he can form an immunity coalition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will need Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked to run as part of the New Right list and pass the electoral threshold.

2020 elections: Israeli-Arab party aspires to 15 seats (Al-Monitor)
Arab Joint List Knesset members are in an excellent mood: They believe that grassroots campaigning could garner them 15 seats in the upcoming March elections.

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National religious parties scramble after Bennett launches New Right campaign (Times of Israel)
Jewish Home, National Union and Otzma Yehudit weigh possibility of primaries as rejuvenated defence minister kicks off bid without waiting for longtime partner Shaked

Photo: Netanyah and Sa’ar (Sharon Ravivo/Ynet)
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