The defection, the flattery and the crash: Idit Silman left out

Idit Silman was defeated in the Likud primaries and will not enter the next Knesset. The column argues that her defection from the change government and her flattery of Netanyahu did not help her, unlike Amichai Chikli, who opposed the government from the start and succeeded.

Idit Silman, who served as coalition chairwoman in the change government and later as environmental protection minister on behalf of Likud, was defeated in the Likud primaries and will not enter the next Knesset. The column argues that her defection from the coalition, the flattery of the Netanyahu family, and the campaign she ran against Naftali Bennett, the man who placed her on the Yamina list, did not help her. The author compares Silman to Amichai Chikli, who also defected but succeeded, and argues that the difference is that Chikli opposed the change government from the start, while Silman supported it until she realized its end was near. The column concludes that defection does not pay, especially when done crudely.