The Likud party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticised fellow cabinet minister Itamar Ben Gvir after he said he would not unite with a fellow far-right minister in the upcoming elections on 27 October.
Ben Gvir rejected a plea from Netanyahu to ally his far-right Jewish Power party with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's far-right Religious Zionism party, which faces an electoral threat from another far-right (but anti-Netanyahu) party called Amcha Yisrael.
"What does Ben Gvir want? A broad national government led by Prime Minister Netanyahu... or because of personal considerations, to burn right-wing votes in order to put a left-wing government in power?" the Likud's official account wrote on X.
