Wooing votes on the right, Netanyahu got the a much needed boost with the Yesha council's support of the Likud Beitenu list.
In a meeting call by Netanyahu with the heads of
the Yesha Council, Yesha mayors promised they would support Netanyahu and call to vote for the Likud Beitenu party.
Yesha council members told Netanyahu they were not pleased
by the party's personal and public attacks against Bennett, saying they
viewed the attacks as an assault on the national camp."The Jewish Home party is a 'sister party' of Likud and so
instead of criticizing the party and Bennett, we must focus on more
important things, like authorizing Beit Ezra in Hevron, and authorizing
the Levy report," one member said.
Netanyahu remained silent, while the coalition chairman
Ze'ev Elkin responded for him saying, "Bennett started it."
The Mayor of Efrat, Oded Revivi, said, "Despite the
justified criticism against Netanyahu over the construction freeze,
Netanyahu is the Prime Minister who after 12 years of a freeze granted
Efrat - the capital of Gush Etzion - massive building permits and
allowed us to expand and grow."
"We put the hard things
behind us, like the evacuation of Migron and Ulpana and we're looking
at the glass half-full," said Head of the Beit El Council, Moshe Rosenbaum. "We are aware that the Prime Minister is under pressure
from abroad and from home but we believe that he will do everything for
the Jews of Judea and Samaria," he added.
