Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu claimed on Sunday evening that two members of the Likud party had approached him and told him about a trick that former minister Gideon Sa'ar had concocted, which would have seen President Reuven Rivlin tasking Sa’ar with the formation of the government instead of Netanyahu.
"I did not make this up, his trick will not succeed," the prime minister said in an interview with Likud TV, the newly established online television channel which Netanyahu set up to bypass the media ahead of the elections.
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