Gantz accuses Netanyahu of harming national security by hindering Gallant’s US trip

National Unity party chief Benny Gantz slams Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over reports that the latter is imposing last-minute conditions on Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s trip to the US ahead of Israel’s expected retaliation for Iran’s missile attack last week.

Gantz, a former war cabinet minister who left the wartime government months ago due to what he said is Netanyahu involving political and other considerations in the war management, tweets that “canceling the defense minister’s trip to the US damages national security at a crucial time to our security, for personal and political considerations.”

“A prime minister who had Israel’s security as his top priority would have sent the defense minister” and “coordinated the messages with him,” argues Gantz.

There have been repeated clashes between Gallant and Netanyahu, who has for months been flirting with the option of firing his defense minister.