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Sunday, July 16, 2023
Gantz accuses PM of ‘surrendering to extremists’ with special plenum session Sunday
Then-opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and then-defense minister Benny Gantz in September 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi, Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
National Unity party leader Benny Gantz rails at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the coalition’s plans to convene the Knesset plenum next Sunday, as part of the legislative push to overhaul the judiciary.
Gantz says that instead of convening ministers to address the security, diplomatic, and economic challenges that Israel is facing, “Netanyahu will continue surrendering to extremists.”
“On the eve of Tisha B’Av, Netanyahu again chooses to tear apart the nation. It’s still not too late to stop,” adds Gantz, referring to the fast day mourning the destruction of the Second Temple that begins in the evening of Wednesday, July 26 and carries through Thursday, July 27.
