According to a report by journalist Yaara Shapira, Oren Dobronsky's father, Alas Dobronsky, chairs the permanent committee of Yisrael Beiteinu and was tasked with composing the party's election list. Associates of Avigdor Liberman say they did not know about Dobronsky's reserved slot on the Likud list until it became public.
The latest report adds to the story of Oren Dobronsky's reserved slot on the Likud list, announced earlier tonight by Prime Minister Netanyahu. The report by Yaara Shapira reveals that Dobronsky’s father, Alas Dobronsky, chairs the permanent committee of Yisrael Beiteinu — the party's internal steering body — and is among the closest associates of party chairman Avigdor Liberman. Moreover, per the report, he was tasked with composing Yisrael Beiteinu's list for the upcoming elections.
Liberman's associates told Shapira they had no knowledge of Dobronsky's son securing a slot on the Likud list until the news broke. As The Zioneer reported earlier this evening, the slot is placed at 11th on the Likud slate and was presented as an artificial-intelligence portfolio for the party. The cross-party family connection raises questions about ties between the two parties ahead of the elections, though neither Likud nor Yisrael Beiteinu have officially commented on the matter beyond the Liberman camp's statement of unawareness.
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