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Wednesday, August 3, 2022
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Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Lapid kicks off election campaign, vows to fight cost of living increase
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Prime Minister and Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid speaks to party members during a Yesh Atid party conference in Tel Aviv, August 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
Prime Minister Yair Lapid kicks off his Yesh Atid party’s election campaign in an event in Tel Aviv, promising to lower the cost of living in Israel.
Lapid takes a dig at opposition chief Benjamin Netanyahu, who presented his own economic plan earlier in the day.
“We are leading the fight against a rise in the cost of living,” Lapid tells the crowd of supporters.
“For 15 years nobody did anything, they did not touch it,” he said referring to Netanyahu’s more-than-decade-long time in power.
“Suddenly Netanyahu learns how to fill up a car? He goes to a gas station, and even does it exactly when we have just brought gas prices down,” Lapid says.
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