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Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Lapid slams Kulanu for sitting out Otzma Yehudit vote: ‘Begin would be ashamed’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleBlue and White’s Yair Lapid lambastes the Kulanu party and its leader Moshe Khalon for sitting out the vote at the Central Elections Committee on approving the candidacy of Otzma Yehudit party members.
“Kulanu decided to be absent from the vote and to allow this group of violent racists to run for the Knesset,” he tweets.
Kulanu is running its campaign for reelection under the slogan of “A sane right-wing” and has depicted Kahlon alongside the image of Likud founder Menahem Begin.
גם מנחם בגין גויס למילואים בתנאי קבע, בקמפיין של כחלון. pic.twitter.com/BmqnqtLsFF
— Rafi Mann (@RafiMann) February 27, 2019
Lapid begs to differ: “This isn’t a sane right-wing. It’s not right-wing at all. If Begin could he would peel himself off of Kahlon’s posters out of shame.”
The vote to approve Otzma Yehudit’s Michael Ben Ari and Itamar Ben Gvir was passed by a single point advantage. Had Kulanu’s three members on the committee opposed, the party’s candidates would have been struck down.
The Times of Israel Community.