The Likud is set to receive a big boost on Tuesday when the former IDF deputy chief of General Staff, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan, will join the party at a press conference with opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu.
Dayan had been in secret negotiations with the Likud for months and the finalization of a deal for him to join the party was intended to be publicized only Monday, but a source in Netanyahu's office mistakenly revealed the news to the press on Sunday.
The addition of Dayan gives the Likud its highest-ranking soldier as a Knesset candidate since former IDF chief of General Staff Shaul Mofaz left the party. It also gives Netanyahu the stamp of approval of one of the top activists against corruption in Israeli politics.
Well, well. No doubt this heralds the first of many defections.
Update: As it was so rightly pointed out by SnoopytheGoon in the comments. Dayan was not a member of Kadima or Likud but ran the Tafnit (an anti-corruption) party.
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Er... not sure Dayan was in Kadima before.
SnoopyTheGoon. OMG -You are so right. How I could forget Dayan was running the Tafnit rather than mistaking him for a Kadima member? I mean, really, what could an anti-corruption crusader have in common with the Kadima hacks....
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