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Thursday, April 11, 2019
Yisrael Beytenu MK denies Liberman meeting Lapid in Vienna
A Yisrael Beytenu MK denies speculation that his party leader Avigdor Liberman and Blue and White’s Yair Lapid were holding covert meetings in Vienna, after both politicians were spotted at Ben Gurion Airport, en route to Europe, following Tuesday’s election.
“The meeting with Lapid in Vienna only exists in the imagination of people who live with conspiracies day and night,” says Oded Forer on Twitter, adding that the idea Liberman would seek a unity government with Blue and White is “paranoid.”
The right-wing Liberman has ruled out sitting in a Blue and White-led government, but also has not committed to joining Netanyahu’s coalition.