"Whoever votes for Ganz-Lapid votes left. Those that stay home, vote left. Those who vote for radical right-wing parties, or for the parties that will not make the minimum threshold to enter the Knesset, vote left."
The Battlelines of the Israeli elections have been drawn
Benny Ganz and Yair Lapid came onto the stage together and announced the launch of the new Blue and White coalition to lead the country after the upcoming Israeli elections.
Benny Ganz said that his mother and Lapid's father lived in the same ghetto in Budapest during the Holocaust years.
"I will be your next Prime Minister," he said, "and we are changing the face of Israeli politics to one of blue and white. We are open to left and right. Everyone, the religious, Jews, Arabs, Christians, Druze, will play an integral part of Israel. We will raise a new flag of HaTikva, Hope."