Aides to Transportation Minister and National Union chairman Bezalel Smotrich proposed to the leaders of the New Right party, Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked, that they reserve a spot for Smotrich on the party’s slate for the next Knesset and, in return, nearly the entire central committee of the Jewish Home party would join the New Right.
Despite the fact that Smotrich does not belong to the Jewish Home at all, the Yediot Aharonot newspaper reported that most of the main activists in the Jewish Home prefer him to the current chairman, Rabbi Rafi Peretz.
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