Opposition leader Isaac Herzog is urging former prime minister Ehud Barak to rejoin the Labor party and make a political comeback.
Sitting alongside the former defense minister at a Labor party event in Tel Aviv, Herzog also announces that Brig. Gen. Dani Arditi, a former chairman of the National Security Council and counterterrorism adviser to three prime ministers, will be joining the Labor party.
“I am very happy that you, Ehud, are returning to public life and call on you to rejoin the Labor party,” Herzog says.
“Ehud, I very much enjoy your tweets, and I have no doubt that they echo in the public and on Balfour [street in Jerusalem, at the Prime Minister’s residence]. But the people here expect you to come down from the balcony and join [the party]. Tweets and Twitter aren’t everything.”
Opposition leader Isaac Herzog calls on Ehud Barak to rejoin the Labor Party on January 29, 2017. (courtesy)
Herzog says he is not ruling out any political alliances — both within the Knesset or outside it.
“My worldview says that you don’t need to fear the entry or return of good forces to politics and the party. The opposite is true. The more that come, the better,” says Herzog.
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