In Likud They Count on Erdan, Shaked, Gantz and Shamir: 'They Will Go with Netanyahu'

Assessment

The Likud party is publicly counting on centrist and right-leaning political lists led by figures like Gilad Erdan and Benny Gantz to ultimately support Benjamin Netanyahu, framing potential votes for those parties as deferred Likud gains. This signals a strategy of absorbing rather than attacking political competitors, betting that voters who drift toward those lists will still block a viable anti-Netanyahu coalition. The claim that these mandates have been visible among direct rivals for two years suggests the party is trying to normalize a long-term electoral dependency on shifting loyalties from its own ideological periphery.