Transportation Minister Bezalel Smutrich told Arutz Sheva on Sunday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu wants the parties to the right of Netanyahu's Likud "weak and submissive."
The Yamina candidate explained, "The only ones who challenge him in the political-security and Jewish identity contexts are us. Netanyahu knows that the size of the party is a false spin. He wants to reduce us and maybe even erase us. He doesn't want me as minister of transportation and [Yamina Chairwoman] Ayelet [Shaked] as justice minister. The public needs to understand the truth. Netanyahu only reduces whoever challenges him on the right."