From the Liveblog of
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Yishai says party ‘definitely‘ in next Knesset
Yachad chairman Eli Yishai plays it cool after the Central Election Committee disqualified Baruch Marzel from running on his slate.
“We will be this election’s surprise, the question is only but how big we will be,” Yishai says during an early evening Channel 10 show. Yishai believes there is no doubt his party will make it to the Knesset, even though it is polling at four Knesset seats, the minimum number of MKs after the electoral threshold has been raised.
Yachad was polling below the electoral threshold until a mere two weeks ago, but has remained above the threshold since it passed it. Yishai tells Channel 10 that teaming up with Marzel and with Yoni Chetboune, who until recently was an MK for Jewish Home, is not against the positions of the rabbi Yishai sees as her mentor, the late Ovadia Yosef.
The Times of Israel Community.