Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday repeated his call for Israel to put an end to Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip, Yediot Ahronot reported.
Lieberman said that Israel cannot afford a military operation that disrupts daily lives every two years.
"We have to take down Hamas, we have to give terrorists the death penalty, we have to restore our deterrence," Lieberman claimed.
"While elections pass, the threats Israel is facing are permanent," the Yisrael Beytenu leader said.
"Yesterday I visited Netiv HaAsara and you can see Hamas from the window shamelessly building fortifications. This has to stop. People can't raise their children with Hamas operating in front of them," he added.
While Likud leader Benjamin Netanyhu also said his first call after the polls close would be to Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett, Lieberman said he will not rush to call other party leaders.
"We released our basic positions. Netanyahu knows what we want - death penalty to terrorists, eradicating Hamas rule and ensuring the Supreme Court can't throw out Knesset laws... I think most of the voters in the national camp support the same positions, even though they didn't dare present them", Lieberman said
He also slammed the Joint Arab List, saying they were "taking advantage of democracy to destroy Israel from within."
"The only thing they have in common is their hatred of Israel," Lieberman said of the Joint List.
He condemned the Arab party for failing to denounce a comment made by one of its spokespeople, who said at an elections panel that Daesh was imitating the Zionist movement.