Livni accuses Netanyahu of seeking jobs for cronies

Haaretz reports that Netanyahu said during the weekly cabinet meeting that he should be able to make political appointments in his government like Trump does.

“Trump can make 4,000 appointments. We should be able to make a few hundred appointments that don’t need a tender,” he says, according to the report, citing a minister in the meeting. “What’s for certain is that with Trump, the officials will carry out his policies. We also need to able to govern.”

Responding to the report, Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni accuses Netanyahu of trying to promote cronyism.

“Netanyahu as usual thinks only of himself, his [political survival] and his rule,” she says in a statement. “So for that he needs to give out hundreds of jobs to his associates. The public isn’t lacking in bureaucracy, but in leadership with integrity and vision.”