Feiglin announces bid to run in next elections, calls on right-wing parties to topple government

Moshe Feiglin, a far-right politician who left Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party a decade ago, has announced that his Zehut party will run in the next general election, according to Hebrew media.

The Ynet news site reports that Feiglin calls on the leaders of right-wing parties to withdraw from the coalition and topple the government.

“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must go,” he is quoted as saying, citing the “unimaginable gap between the generation of heroism that is waging the war and the generation of defeat that is leading it.”

Feiglin also announced his intention to run for office in January last year.

Zehut previously ran as an independent party, and, in one election in 2019, was widely projected in opinion polls to enter the Knesset with up to 10 seats, before faltering and failing to enter the parliament entirely.