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Why this Likud MK presents unique challenge to Netanyahu

Knesset member Yehuda Glick advocates for the right of Jews to pray at the Temple Mount, but at the same time he champions liberal values such as freedom of the press.
Yehuda Glick, an activist of the "temple mount faithful" group, poses for a photo in Jerusalem June 30, 2011. Glick was shot and severely wounded in Jerusalem on October 29, 2014 as he left a conference promoting a Jewish campaign to permit praying at a compound in the Old City that that has become a flashpoint as both Jews and Muslims regard it as a holy site, Israeli officials said. Israeli police shot dead a Palestinian on Thursday after he fired at them resisting arrest in East Jerusalem hours after the
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Member of Knesset Yehuda Glick, a representative of the Judea and Samaria (West Bank) region in the Likud, accepts with equanimity the cold shoulder he has received from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ever since he entered the Knesset in May 2016 to replace former Minister of Defense Moshe Ya'alon, who resigned. In an interview with Al-Monitor, Glick said that as of now all of his requests to meet with Netanyahu, even for a few minutes, have been automatically brushed off.

“Ever since I became a member of Knesset, Netanyahu refuses to meet with me, but I’m planted deep in the Likud. When I entered the Knesset, he didn’t want an association with me because ‘I ignite the Middle East,’ and now because I’m a leftist.”

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