MESOPOTAMIA NEWS TODAYS SURPRISE : DON TRUMP FOR KNESSET?
Donald Trump & the Lubavticher Rebbe are running for Knesset?
Few ‘Anglo candidates’ are in realistic slots to make it into the 23rd Knesset.
By GIL HOFFMAN JANUARY 16, 2020 15:01 – JERUSALEM POST – US President Donald Trump is busy with his own re-election campaign in America, but a political party in Israel submitted his name as a Knesset candidate in the March 2 election.
The Red and White Party, headed by businessman and activist Ami Feinstein, placed Trump eighth on his list of candidates and the late Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, ninth on the list. Feinstein submitted the list on Wednesday to the head of the Central Elections Committee, Supreme Court Judge Neil Hendel.
Hendel will disqualify Trump, because he is not a citizen of Israel and Schneerson, because he is neither a citizen nor alive, which are both qualifications in order to run. Red and White is not expected to cross the electoral threshold.
The top immigrant candidates from English-speaking countries with a chance of getting elected are Toronto-born MK Sharren Haskel, who is 30th on the Likud list; Yamina leader Naftali Bennett, who was born in Haifa to immigrants from San Francisco; UTJ’s 8th candidate, former MK Yitzhak Pindrus, who was born in Jerusalem to immigrants from Cleveland and Boston; and Blue and White MK and 12th candidate Chili Tropper, who was born in Jerusalem to parents from New York.
Likud MK Yoav Kisch, who is 24th on the list, gave up his British citizenship when he was elected in 2015. Blue and White MK Asaf Zamir, who is 19th on the list, renounced his American citizenship when he was first elected in April.
It briefly looked like Blue and White would give a realistic slot on Wednesday to former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler’s daughter, attorney Michal Cotler-Wunsh.
Cotler-Wunsh was born in Jerusalem, served as a lone soldier in the IDF and obtained law degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and McGill University in Montreal, where she has lived much of her life, as she alternated back and forth between Israel and Canada. Three of her four children were born and went to school in Montreal.