Likud criticises Ben Gvir for splitting far-right vote

Likud criticises Ben Gvir for splitting far-right vote 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 Amch