After Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced his intention to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in all three criminal cases against him, the prime minister’s partners in the rightist bloc rallied around him. They insisted that they remained loyal, and stressed that they would recommend to President Reuven Rivlin that Netanyahu be the one to form the next government. Netanyahu will officially kick off the Likud election campaign on Monday, in the shadow of those looming indictments, and will unveil the Likud’s “national team” for the 21st Knesset at a major event at Kfar Maccabiah.

The objective of the event, which is being held a fair period after the party’s primaries, is to raise morale and energize party activists; but it is also to refocus the campaign messages and move on to the true objective — victory in the elections and the formation of a stable government with all the parties in the bloc.

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