Likud's haredi-religious leadership, headed by Yaakov Wieder, who chairs the Likud faction in the Bnei Brak City Council, officially announced on Sunday its full support for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in the Likud leadership primaries in 11 days.
A statement by the haredi leadership said that "the left has been trying for many years to weaken the Likud and thereby crumble the right-wing government, and therefore it is precisely now that we must stand behind the prime minister and back him up."