Bennett said to leave cabinet meeting as ministers discuss refugee policy without him

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, center, and Aliyah and Integration Minister Tamano-Shata, right, at a meeting of the Ministerial Committee on Aliyah and Integration, March 7, 2022. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, center, and Aliyah and Integration Minister Tamano-Shata, right, at a meeting of the Ministerial Committee on Aliyah and Integration, March 7, 2022. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett left the cabinet meeting on the government’s refugee policy shortly after it began and has not returned in the two hours that have since passed, Channel 12 reports.

It is not immediately clear what required Bennett to leave the meeting.

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