Knives out between Jewish Home, Yesh Atid

The Jewish Home party fires back at Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid after his comments at a conference of business organizations this morning. Lapid boasted of his party’s achievements and accused Naftali Bennett of harming the Israeli economy.

“Lapid is misleading the public on a whole new level here, painting a reality which never existed,” senior Jewish Home officials tell the NRG news website.

The Yesh Atid leader “attacks Bennett because he has no answers of his own,” the officials add. “The public has had enough of politicians who play the ad hominem game. It’s time he answered questions.

“We have yet to hear from Lapid answers as to why, when he was finance minister, he blocked Bennett’s initiatives for unemployment payments for independents, tax breaks for small businesses and raising the wage of IDF soldiers. Now, he promises precisely these things. The public wants results, not excuses.”