Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu wrote on his Facebook page Sunday that if he is elected, Moshe Kahlon will be the finance minister in his government, regardless of how many Knesset seats his party receives.
Netanyahu posted a screenshot of a news report that quoted Kahlon as saying that it was Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett who torpedoed Kahlon's appointment as Israel Lands Authority chairman in 2013.
Netanyahu promised to appoint Kahlon to the job shortly before the 2013 election, but failed to follow through on the promise. He pointed to Kahlon's statement as proof that this was not his fault, but Bennett's.
Kahlon also accuses Bennett, in the clipping uploaded by Netanyahu, of trying to prevent Kahlon's appointment as finance minister in the next government.
Netanyahu's post is a clever swipe at Kahlon, too, because he is telling the public, in essence, that it does not need to vote for Kahlon since he will appoint him Finance Minister anyway. He thus hopes to get more nationalists to vote for Likud, instead of Kahlon.