Netanyahu Says Will 'Immediately' Take Annexation Steps if Re-elected
In an interview with Israeli public radio, Netanyahu said annexation of the Jordan Valley and other parts of the West Bank was his top priority among "four major immediate missions".
"That will happen within weeks, two months at the most, I hope," he said in the interview aired 24 hours before polls were scheduled to open.
"The joint US-Israeli mapping committee started work a week ago," he added, according to AFP.
US President Donald Trump's widely-criticized Middle East plan, unveiled in late January, gave the Zionist entity a green light to annex the area and proposed a committee to set out the exact borders of the territory to be annexed.
Netanyahu listed his other priorities as signing an "historic" defense treaty with the United States, Israel's key ally, and "eradicating the Iranian threat", without elaborating on his plan for Tehran.
Netanyahu on Sunday said that his fourth "immediate" goal if he wins another term -- despite facing trial on multiple corruption charges -- would be major economic reform to bring down Israel's high cost of living.
After inconclusive elections in April and September, latest opinion polls put the right-wing Netanyahu and his centrist rival Benny Gantz neck and neck in Monday's vote.
