Despite the fact that votes for Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Strength), a far right party, will almost certainly not result in any Knesset seats for its candidates, Rabbi Dov Lior, the party's spiritual leader will not ask Itamar Ben-Givr, the head of the party, to withdraw from the elections. It is widely held that an additional two or three seats could be added to the right wing bloc, probably enough to form a majority in the next Knesset, if Otzma Yehudit were to withdraw, with its backers then voting for other right wing candidates. In order to pass the threshold for winning Knesset seats, a party must garner 3.25% of the votes cast, which is roughly equivalent to four seats, a threshold Otzma Yehudit is virtually certain not to reach. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had reached out to Rabbi Lior, asking to schedule a meeting with him. Lior refused to meet since he understood that Netanyahu would try to persuade him to tell Ben-Gvir to withdraw. "There is no price on earth that would persuade me to abandon the ideology in which I believe," Lior said.