Netanyahu: "A broad right-wing government under me - or a weak left-wing government under Eisenkot"

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented this evening the six new candidates in the Likud party and posed a binary dilemma: a broad right-wing government under his leadership versus a weak left-wing government under Gadi Eisenkot. In his speech, he ignored the report in Haaretz about the warning from the President of the United Arab Emirates before October 7.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a statement this evening at the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem, where he presented the six new candidates he added to the Likud list for the Knesset: Talik Guili, Yaakov Bardugo, Eli Goldschmidt, Elisha Madan, David Peter, and Itzik Bunzel. In his speech, Netanyahu presented a binary dilemma: "The central question of the elections is this: will it be a broad and strong right-wing government under me - or a weak left-wing government under Eisenkot and the Arabs." Netanyahu congratulated Oren Dobronovsky, who it was decided last night would not enter the national list due to the need to give up his American citizenship, but will be announced as a candidate for a ministerial position. Later, the PM presented the six candidates and congratulated each of them. The article notes that Netanyahu omitted from his speech the report published today in the newspaper Haaretz, according to which several days before the October 7 massacre, the President of the United Arab Emirates called him and warned that Hamas was planning an attack. The report sparked public uproar and demands for clarification of the truth. The article also includes the full Likud list.