Yehuda Glick Running for Symbolic Position in Likud
December 21, 2014Yehuda Glick has announced he will run for a spot on the Likud Knesset list for upcoming elections, the daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported.
The Temple Mount rights activist was shot multiple times by a terrorist during an assassination attempt in late October. The shooting occurred outside the Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem, where Glick had been speaking just moments earlier.
He was seriously injured in the attack and spent 4 weeks in the hospital recuperating. He called his recovery a “miracle.”
Glick, the founder and leader of the LIBA Initiative for Jewish Freedom on the Temple Mount, will run for the position of Likud’s representative in Judea and Samaria, at 33rd on the list. With the Likud party polling in the low 20s, the slot is a purely symbolic one.
Glick won the position for the previous election campaign in January 2013, and was placed 56th on the Knesset list as part of Likud’s joint list with Yisrael Beytenu – an agreement which fell apart earlier this year.
Glick confirmed Saturday that he intends to run again, but explained the move was only symbolic.
“I am running precisely because it is not a realistic position [to become part of the Knesset],” he said, noting, “I want to maintain my place in Likud and remain on the inside.”
Glick also mentioned that he had considered running for a more realistic position in the Likud, whose party primaries are to be held on December 31, but stated that his wife vetoed such a move. “She controls the house,” he added.
The activist also made clear his plans to continue promoting the ascension of Jews to the Temple Mount, even as a member of Likud.
“I will continue to be a man who holds very ‘extreme’ positions: extreme in my demands for human rights, extreme in my demand for zero tolerance against violence and terror, and extreme in my demand for fair and honest police,” Glick concluded.
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