Itamar Ben-Gvir Drops a Bomb: 'Four Ministers and Four MKs in Likud Asked to Join Me'

Itamar Ben-Gvir claims in an interview that four ministers and four Likud MKs asked to join Otzma Yehudit. He attacked Almog Cohen who moved to Likud, and addressed the transfer of policing powers in Samaria and the tweet storm.

Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben-Gvir said in an interview with 103FM that four sitting ministers and four sitting Likud MKs approached him asking to join his party, ahead of the Likud primaries. According to him, they see the party's polls and its strength. Meanwhile, Ben-Gvir attacked MK Almog Cohen, who moved from the party to Likud, saying, "You take my mandate and transfer it to Likud? That's not how you behave." He said that in the merger negotiations with Religious Zionism, he insisted on placing Cohen in a realistic slot, and that the negotiations almost collapsed over this. In addition, Ben-Gvir addressed the transfer of policing powers over settlers in Samaria from the IDF to the police, saying that in Areas A and B the police have no authority, and that Defense Minister Israel Katz did not speak with him about the decision. He also responded to the tweet storm on X, in which he distributed a video of the arrest of a Bedouin bride and groom, saying that he did not delete the tweet, and that he is proud of law enforcement. Ben-Gvir praised the police for finding Mali and Liel Yahalomi in Argentina.