ISRAEL-ELECTION-BENNETT PROFILE Naftali Bennett, leader of ultranationalist party, runs for top cabinet post in upcoming poll

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  • Title: ISRAEL-ELECTION-BENNETT PROFILE Naftali Bennett, leader of ultranationalist party, runs for top cabinet post in upcoming poll
  • Date: 15th March 2015
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (FILE) (REUTERS) WIDE OF BENNETT ATTENDING NEWS CONFERENCE WITH FOREIGN MEDIA, ALONGSIDE PARTY LEADERS AND LAWMAKERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) BAYIT YEHUDI PARTY LEADER NAFTALI BENNETT SAYING: "I believe I'm the only one, our party is the only party on this podium that opposes founding a Palestinian state within the land of Israel, between the Jordan and the Mediterr
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: General
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  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: FOLLOWING EDIT CONTAINS ORIGINALLY 4:3 MATERIAL
    Naftali Bennett, leader of the far-right Jewish Home party, emerged as a surprise success story in the 2013 election, advocating annexation of more than half of the occupied West Bank and calling a Palestinian state "suicide" for Israel.
    Bennett, a religious Jew, has expanded his party's appeal to younger, more secular Israelis through a series of hip campaign commercials in which the 42-year-old mocks liberals, whom he accuses of apologising to the world for Israel's existence.
    Now economy minister, he is widely seen as being in the running for a top cabinet post if Netanyahu forms the next governing coalition.
    Born in Israel to parents from San Francisco, Bennett spent years in the United States before he sold his anti-fraud software company to a U.S. security firm for $145 million.
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