Israeli-Russian billionaire boasts he could be PM

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2006

JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli-Russian billionaire Arkady Gaydamak has boasted that he could become prime minister of the Jewish state if he decided to run for election. "Today I have the public support to be elected prime minister with a large majority," he was quoted as telling the country's mass-selling Yediot Aharonot newspaper in an interview Sunday.

"Give me three months and half the Knesset will be mine, I'm sure. Without seeing people in the street, I am certain that they are talking about Gaydamak as prime minister," Yediot quoted him as saying. Speaking to AFP, however, the businessman claimed that he had "no political ambition". "Everything I do is for the good of the people. Only politicians imagine there is political calculation behind my actions which are purely...