Ben Gvir denies as ‘spin’ report that PM offered to make him deputy minister

25 July 2019, 9:36 pm

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Itamar Ben Gvir says he cannot confirm a report by the Kan public broadcaster that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered to appoint him deputy minister in his meetings with Union of Right-Wing Parties leaders Rafi Peretz and Bezalel Smotrich earlier this week.

“I suppose they want to offer us all sorts of things, but these reports in my opinion are spins of Bezalel Smotrich so that Ayelet Shaked will agree to this merge [with all of us],” Ben Gvir tells The Times of Israel. “By the way, I’m in favor of mergers, I’m in favor of a big merger and I think it’s important. But there are also other elements on the right that need to show responsibility like the prime minister has.”