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Bri's report on Netanyahu's final appeal before Israel's election: a Russian-language video aimed at immigrants from the former Soviet Union, thanking them for the honor and strength they brought the country and asking for Likud votes. The fields he lists are high tech, industry, security and academia, and he cites his appointment of Major General Roman Goffman as Mossad chief, the most senior post the government can fill, praising Goffman's intelligence, creativity, initiative, perceptiveness and patriotism. Then the video turns on Avigdor Lieberman, branded a "representative of the Muslim Brotherhood," accused of moving billions in taxpayer money to associations that call Hamas a charity and of calling for a Jordanian or Arab army to guard Israel in Judea and Samaria, which Netanyahu calls a terrible danger. Lieberman topples right-wing governments and has gone to the other side, per Netanyahu, who says his audience is on the right side and that a strong right-wing government under him and Donald Trump, who he says urged people to vote for him, will remove the Iranian threat once and for all. The race is tight and he is trailing against Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett, Avigdor Lieberman and Yair Golan, so any help on offer is welcome. #Politics

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Bri's report on Netanyahu's final appeal before Israel's election: a Russian-language video aimed at immigrants from the former Soviet Union, thanking them for the honor and strength they brought the country and asking for Likud votes. The fields he lists are high tech, industry, security and academia, and he cites his appointment of Major General Roman Goffman as Mossad chief, the most senior post the government can fill, praising Goffman's intelligence, creativity, initiative, perceptiveness and patriotism. Then the video turns on Avigdor Lieberman, branded a "representative of the Muslim Brotherhood," accused of moving billions in taxpayer money to associations that call Hamas a charity and of calling for a Jordanian or Arab army to guard Israel in Judea and Samaria, which Netanyahu calls a terrible danger. Lieberman topples right-wing governments and has gone to the other side, per Netanyahu, who says his audience is on the right side and that a strong right-wing government under him and Donald Trump, who he says urged people to vote for him, will remove the Iranian threat once and for all. The race is tight and he is trailing against Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett, Avigdor Lieberman and Yair Golan, so any help on offer is welcome. #Politics

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