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Monday, June 16, 2025
Do your job: Gantz slams Regev for telling stranded Israelis to enjoy themselves
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National Unity chairman Benny Gantz slams Transportation Minister Miri Regev (Likud), after she tells citizens stuck abroad due to the closure of Israeli airspace to “enjoy their stay abroad as much as they can.”
“Minister Regev, an elderly woman waiting for surgery; a young woman whose husband died in the war traveled for a few days and left a 4-year-old child in Israel; these are just two cases out of thousands of stories of people who need to return home,” Gantz tweets.
“Your job and that of the government is not to tell them what to do but to get them home safely.”
Earlier on Monday, Regev announced that Israel was working on an operation to safely return the more than 100,000 Israelis stuck abroad, but it will take time.
Regev asked Israelis stranded outside the country’s borders not to “panic and enjoy their stay abroad as much as they can.”
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