Jerusalem mayoral possibilities sell fire

The Oct 30 contest for mayor of Jerusalem strong this week, as a heading dual announced possibilities in a polls, Jerusalem Affairs Minister Ze’ev Elkin (Jerusalem Will Succeed) and city assemblyman Ofer Berkovich (Hitorerut), non-stop glow on any other.

Elkin expelled a video portraying Berkovich as young, fresh and utter to be mayor. The video depicts a Hitorerut personality as mayor and being incompetent to hoop a job. At a end of a clip, Elkin sits down in a mayor’s chair and asks his secretary to bond him to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Berkovich pounded Elkin, since Jerusalem was named one of Israel’s dirtiest cities after Elkin served as both Jerusalem affairs apportion and environmental insurance minister. Elkin responded that a cleanliness of a city is a solitary shortcoming of a municipality in that Berkovich served as emissary mayor underneath effusive mayor Nir Barkat.

The Hitorerut personality also highlighted a censure by a Movement for Quality Government to Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit accusing Elkin of misusing his ministry’s supports to co-sponsor a high form discussion in Jerusalem in that he was invited to speak. He pronounced a NIS 700,000 a method allocated should have been spent on cleaning a city and relocating a government’s offices that are illegally located in other cities to a capital.

“It looks like a banned enrichment of Minister Elkin’s personal interests in a competition for Jerusalem mayor during a responsibility of a public’s seductiveness regulating a supports of taxpayers,” a transformation wrote Mandelblit.

There was also infighting this week among a dual parties that make adult United Torah Judaism. Agudat Yisrael has permitted emissary mayor Yossi Daitch, though he is not approaching to run if he does not accept a support of Degel Hatorah, that is holding time creation a decision. Agudat Yisrael warned Degel Hatorah that a support for Degel’s possibilities in other cities with vast haredi (ultra-Orthodox) populations would not be guaranteed if Degel does not validate Daitch.

The deadline for possibilities to enter a races in a metropolitan elections is Sep 27.

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