Ben Gvir: Nobody should ‘touch a hair on the head’ of Supreme Court chief Amit

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir says that nobody should “touch a hair on the head” of Supreme Court President Isaac Amit, after his ally, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, said he must be “trampled.”

“Nobody should dare to touch a hair on his head,” Ben Gvir tells the Kan Reshet Bet public radio station. “We have a serious disagreement with him, he is causing division and polarization among the people, but from that to harming him — God forbid.”

Ben Gvir also responds to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments in a Fox News interview that most of the violent settler extremists in the West Bank are “teenagers who come from broken homes.”

“Most of the hilltop youth” — a term used to describe the young extremist settler movement who try to establish illegal outposts — “that we’re talking about don’t come from broken homes,” says Ben Gvir. “But to come from a broken home, to rehabilitation yourself and to establish an outpost is a good thing,” he adds.

The minister says there are “a small handful” of them who use violence, “and that’s wrong, but most of the hilltop youth are sweet kids who love the country.”