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Monday, February 18, 2019
Netanyahu to meet with Jewish Home leaders to discuss further merging with far-right parties
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has invited Jewish Home leaders Rafi Peretz and Bezalel Smotrich to a meeting in Jerusalem to discuss the possibility of them merging with additional far right-wing parties, such as Otzma Yehudit or Yachad.
Netanyahu has been placing immense pressure on the Jewish Home leaders, who themselves agreed to unite their factions last week, to further expand their party. The leaders have reportedly been hesitant of scaring away more moderate voters with such a merger and have pressed Netanyahu as to why he isn’t interested in taking in Otzma Yehudit or Yachad himself into the Likud party.
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