Avigdor Liberman says he'll demand Finance portfolio

• Date: 29 December 2020
• Author: GIL HOFFMAN
• Published date: 29 December 2020
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Liberman said he was looking for a challenge after serving as defense minister and foreign minister as well as other portfolios.

Yisrael Beytenu will also demand the Internal Security portfolio for MK Eli Avidar and the Health portfolio for Prof. Leonid Eidelman, a former head of the World Medical Organization.

Eidelman would be the first doctor to hold the Health portfolio since Ephraim Sneh was health minister from 1994-1996 under prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres.

The party did not express interest in the Aliyah and Integration portfolio, which it held in past governments.

Liberman has called...