"My vision is to have a modern Jewish country, one that is led by a man who is in-tune with a Jewish vision dated back 3,000 years," Moshe Feiglin saidFriday in his first radio interview since being elected to the Knesset.
Feiglin was slated at number 22 on the joint Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu list, which won the election with 31 seats.
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The head of the Manhigut Yehudit ("Jewish Leadership") faction of the Likud ,who is a political hardliner ,said that, "I feel the weight of the responsibility placed on my shoulders.
"Many have mistaken me for a Knesset member in the past. This is a new beginning for me and I'm in it for the long haul... As you know, I didn’t just run for a Knesset seat, but I have also always been in the running for the party's leadership.
"I will continue to vie for leadership and when the current party chairman – who we all support – steps down, I hope to be the one to succeed him," Feiglin told Radio Tel Aviv.
Commenting on the disappointment felt in the Likud following the election results – which fell below the joint ticket's projected 42 mandates – Feiglin said that "The direction of the campaign was severely flawed.
- "Let's face the facts: They kept me out of (the campaign) and the Likud lost at least 10 seats because of that, and because it tried to disguise its true identity."