{"id":35110,"date":"2017-03-05T06:18:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T12:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=35110"},"modified":"2017-03-05T06:18:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T12:18:11","slug":"dichter-to-challenge-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/dichter-to-challenge-netanyahu\/","title":{"rendered":"Dichter to challenge Netanyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By YONI ARIEL<\/p>\n<p>Avi Dichter, a Knesset member (MK- Likud) and chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, has announced he is a candidate to be the Likud\u2019s next candidate for prime minister, irrespective of whether Netanyahu runs or not.<\/p>\n<p>To date, Dichter is the only Likud MK to say he will challenge Netanayhu. Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz, who enjoys widespread support amongst both the party\u2019s central committee and membership, said last week he would run for party head but also said he would not challenge Netanyahu. Katz made it clear that he would only run after Netanyahu has retired from public life.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that a Likud front-bencher \u2013 and a close ally of Netanyahu \u2013 has openly challenged the prime minister, is an indication that the prime minister is losing the faith of his party due to mounting legal problems. Many observers and pundits believe that by the end of the year Netanyahu will have resigned and that new elections will be held some time between November 2017 and May 2018.<\/p>\n<p>According to unconfirmed reports, Netanyahu has already sent out feelers to Attorney General Avihai Mandelblit, as to whether a \u201cresignation in return for no indictment\u201d deal is possible.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Dichter%20to%20challenge%20Netanyahu\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1794],"tags":[8781,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35111,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35110\/revisions\/35111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}