Channel 12 political correspondent Yaron Avraham sharply criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday following the announcement that Hadar Muchtar would be appointed to head the youth division of Likud's election campaign.
"What cruelty," Avraham wrote in response to the decision. The appointment comes after Netanyahu himself blocked Muchtar from competing in the Likud party primaries earlier this year.
Muchtar, who maintains an active social media presence, had turned to her followers in disappointment at the time, asking them to pressure the prime minister to grant her an exemption from the party's standard membership period requirement. She needed special approval because she had joined Likud relatively recently and did not meet the threshold for running in the internal party elections.
But her difficulties did not end there. In recent weeks, reports emerged that she was in talks with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir about joining his Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party. However, Ben Gvir himself announced that she would not enter the next Knesset on his list. He suggested that she should study parliamentary work and return better prepared in the future.
