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Far-right minister said to have wished ministers ‘happy holiday,’ in first cabinet meeting after Oct. 7
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Settlements Minister Orit Strock arrives to a government conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
Haaretz reports that in the cabinet meeting held hours after Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught, far-right Settlements and National Projects Minister Orit Strock began her remarks by saying, “First of all, happy holiday.”
While some participants withheld their discomfort, Prim Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded, “a happy holiday this will not be.”
Some 1,200 people were brutally murdered by Hamas-led terrorists in an attack launched on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. Another 252 were taken hostage.
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