Netanyahu's Likud Uses Trump Photo in Israeli Election Billboard

TEHRAN (defapress) – A giant billboard of a smiling Donald Trump shaking hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loomed over a main entrance to Tel Aviv Sunday, part of the Israeli leader's re-election campaign.

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Date: 03 February 2019 - 17:02

"Netanyahu. In another league," read the Hebrew-language billboard, in a swipe at the caliber of the veteran prime minister's opponents in the April 9 national election, Reuters reported.

A spokesman for Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party, whose logo adorns the sign over Tel Aviv's busy Ayalon highway, did not immediately respond to a query on whether the White House had authorized it to use the photograph.

Netanyahu is favorite to win the election but opinion polls show one of his toughest challengers, former general Benny Gantz, making gains.

The prime minister is facing possible charges in three graft cases. He denies any wrongdoing and has called the investigations a witch-hunt.

Trump is popular in Israel because of his tough policies towards the Palestinians and his transfer last May of the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem (al-Quds).

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