1 of 1
Story summary
- Likud Party will hold primaries on Monday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu securing eight spots and three ministers running uncontested.
- Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, Defence Minister Israel Katz and Likud Constitution Committee Chair Haim Katz will appear uncontested, after Saar’s party merged with Likud in March 2025.
- Netanyahu appointed entrepreneur Oren Dobronsky to head AI projects, who apologized in June for calling President Donald Trump a “morally corrupt piece of s***”.
