National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is fuming after the security cabinet held a vote last night on opening additional crossings for Gaza aid without him.
“They voted in the cabinet before I arrived, even though they knew I was in a security-related meeting,” Ben Gvir claims in a statement.
Hebrew media outlets report that the vote went ahead because Ben Gvir again arrived more than 20 minutes late to the meeting.
“Since when do we vote at the beginning of a meeting? Never. Votes always take place at the end,” Ben Gvir says, claiming that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moved the vote up because he knew that the far-right national security minister would vote against it. That still wouldn’t have been enough to block the measures, though.
Following Ben Gvir’s airing of frustrations, Netanyahu’s office announced that they would be adding to the meeting protocol the minister’s opposition to the vote.
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