Following a raucous Knesset session in which Netanyahu and Herzog traded barbs, both the prime minister and head of the opposition continued sparring online through their Facebook pages.
A comment by opposition leader Isaac Herzog to a post by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Facebook, from December 16 2015. (Screen capture)
Netanyahu posted a video from the plenum and wrote: “MK Herzog, the time has come for you to condemn Breaking the Silence, an organization besmirching the image of soldiers around the world, blackening the face of the Israel Defense Forces, harming our fighters.”
Commenting on the video, Herzog wrote: “Bibi, in demagoguery you deserve a 10/10 score. In demagoguery we lose and you win for sure. But a prime minister is not a talking parrot. He needs to run a country. The time for talk is done. Deal with stopping Arab terrorism, restoring quiet to the streets and catching the Jewish terrorists from Duma, fight raging poverty, change the natural gas draft and mainly, for once in your career, start seeing people as people. In short: Start working, stop blabbering.”
Is our live election coverage important to you?
Are you relying on The Times of Israel for accurate and timely coverage of the 2026 Israeli election? If so, please join The Times of Israel Community. For as little as $6/month, you will:
Support our independent journalists who are working around the clock to report political developments as they unfold;
Read ToI with a clear, ads-free experience on our site, apps and podcasts; and
Gain access to exclusive content shared only with the ToI Community, including our DocuNationstreaming film series and weekly letters from founding editor David Horovitz.
We’re really pleased that you’ve read X Times of Israel articles in the past month.
That’s why we started the Times of Israel - to provide discerning readers like you with must-read coverage of Israel and the Jewish world.
So now we have a request. Unlike other news outlets, we haven’t put up a paywall. But as the journalism we do is costly, we invite readers for whom The Times of Israel has become important to help support our work by joining The Times of Israel Community.
For as little as $6 a month you can help support our quality journalism while enjoying The Times of Israel AD-FREE, as well as accessing exclusive content available only to Times of Israel Community members.
Thank you, David Horovitz, Founding Editor of The Times of Israel
From 
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on Google
