Shai Malka, CEO of the Zehut Party, announced that he would not run on the party's Knesset list despite the request of chairman Moshe Feiglin.
"Unfortunately, last week I was not running the party and not managing the campaign, but only the internal crisis that hit my ideological and political home - my identity.
I was shocked to find out how much some people perceived me, thousands of light-years away from my perception of myself and the truth.
I went through a campaign of slander, lies and the poisoning of water cisterns that were the treasures of the party. The fire broke out in the camp.
I was hurt by the betrayal, hurt by the lies and hurt by the willingness of some of the camp's people to burn everything at all costs, in the name of "truth," "morality," and "justice."