Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman launched a controversial campaign video this week, which some even dubbed antisemitic, depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wearing peyot and a round Chasidic hat.
Mr Lieberman, who forced a second election by refusing to enter Mr Netanyahu’s coalition, has tried to focus the campaign on the alliance between Likud and the Strictly Orthodox parties.
In a short video released by his party this week, Mr Netanyahu is seen in Charedi dress and hairstyle, flanked by the leaders of United Torah Judaism, Shas and the nationalist-religious Union of Right-Wing Parties.
It included a play on the Likud slogan Yamin Hazak (“strong right”), which was replaced by Yamin Mithazek, a common euphemism for someone becoming more religious.
