In a fairly casual meeting, Netanyahu eliminated Ben Gvir's campaign | Mati Tuchfeld

Ben Gvir planned a campaign against Netanyahu claiming exclusion, but a political meeting between Netanyahu, Smotrich, and Ben Gvir himself, which leaked to the media, shuffled the cards. Tuchfeld's analysis determines that the meeting proves Ben Gvir is not excluded, and it eliminated the basis for his campaign.

Mati Tuchfeld's article in Maariv analyzes how a routine political meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben Gvir, and Religious Zionism chairman Bezalel Smotrich, which leaked to Channel 14, eliminated the exclusion campaign that Ben Gvir had planned. Ben Gvir recently claimed that Netanyahu was excluding him due to international pressure and fear of being "tainted" by association with him, and that their relationship, which had been good over the past two years, suddenly stopped. However, the article argues that the very existence of the meeting, described as a coordination meeting of the right-wing bloc, proves that Ben Gvir is not excluded and is an integral part of the bloc. The leak, according to Tuchfeld, shuffled the cards and sealed the possibility that Ben Gvir could present Netanyahu as someone distancing him on the way to a government with Gadi Eisenkot. The article quotes Ben Gvir saying that the distancing is "precise" and that perhaps Netanyahu "has other plans."