The Jewish Leadership faction of the Likud, headed by Moshe Feiglin, will hold a conference at the Binyanei HaUmah Convention Center in Jerusalem this evening. The promotional literature, which can be read here, explained that instead of complaining about the closure of Arutz-7, the latest cases of refusal to serve in the IDF, the injustice to Jonathan Pollard and Noam Federman, and the like, participants will be able to hear or meet Moshe Feiglin, Eli Yosef, Adir Zyk, Moshe Keinan, Elisheva Federman, Rabbis Dov Lior and Shmuel Eliyahu, Ministers Natan Sharansky and Yisrael Katz, and others [including 130 Likud Central Committee members] in order to hear "how to build the alternative."
"The main purpose of tonight is to increase the strength of our faction in the Likud," Feiglin told Arutz-7 this morning. "It will be our first conference not as an outsider, but as an integral part of Israeli politics." Although the group has no MKs (Feiglin still has an outside chance of entering the Knesset before the next election), Feiglin explained today that yesterday's outpouring of Likud criticism against Sharon "did not come from nowhere. We are a rising power... We have two government ministers speaking tonight, and Uzi Landau also said he would try to come. We invited the others as well, but we informed them in advance that only those who act according to the nationalist line - i.e., they did not vote in favor of the Road Map and voted against the prisoner release - will be invited to address us... But our goal is not just to have influence, but to actually reach the leadership of the party and the country. The Likud is a large party, and it has many voices. Many of them are positive, as opposed to the head of the party who is leading in a different direction, and we have set ourselves a goal to double the number of Jewish Leadership members in the Likud so that we can lead the party in our direction."
"The main purpose of tonight is to increase the strength of our faction in the Likud," Feiglin told Arutz-7 this morning. "It will be our first conference not as an outsider, but as an integral part of Israeli politics." Although the group has no MKs (Feiglin still has an outside chance of entering the Knesset before the next election), Feiglin explained today that yesterday's outpouring of Likud criticism against Sharon "did not come from nowhere. We are a rising power... We have two government ministers speaking tonight, and Uzi Landau also said he would try to come. We invited the others as well, but we informed them in advance that only those who act according to the nationalist line - i.e., they did not vote in favor of the Road Map and voted against the prisoner release - will be invited to address us... But our goal is not just to have influence, but to actually reach the leadership of the party and the country. The Likud is a large party, and it has many voices. Many of them are positive, as opposed to the head of the party who is leading in a different direction, and we have set ourselves a goal to double the number of Jewish Leadership members in the Likud so that we can lead the party in our direction."