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“I am very thankful to Gutnick for the compliment,” Shaked said. “Right now, we have a prime minister in Benjamin Netanyahu, and after him, [Bayit Yehudi leader] Naftali Bennett is most fit. But in the distant future, everything is open.”Shaked said she “loves her party,” and earlier, in a radio interview, she said she would not surprise Bennett by leaving.Gutnick said he was not disappointed by what Shaked said.“I am extremely pleased to hear she wants to be prime minister in the future,” he said. “The rest is destiny and divine providence (hashgacha pratit).”Former coalition chairman David Bitan, who started the rumors about Shaked when he said that if she ran in Likud, she could win the second slot on the party’s Knesset slate after Netanyahu, told the Post Tuesday that he was not sent by Netanyahu to cause problems in Bayit Yehudi.“I was just giving her an innocent compliment, and there was nothing behind it,” Bitan said.
Ayelet Shaked: I may run for prime minister eventually
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked sees herself eventually running for prime minister, she hinted in an interview with The Jerusalem Post at the Knesset on Tuesday.
