Gallant blasts ‘irresponsible’ Ben Gvir for threatening IDF chief of staff over suspension of disorderly soldiers

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, center, speaks to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir after a Knesset vote in Jerusalem, February 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, center, speaks to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir after a Knesset vote in Jerusalem, February 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant tears into National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir after the far-right minister appeared to threaten IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi during a cabinet meeting yesterday.

“Under no circumstances should they be dismissed,” Ben Gvir told Halevi during the meeting, in reference to the army’s decision to suspend several soldiers who filmed themselves singing Hanukkah songs over the loudspeaker system in a mosque in the West Bank city of Jenin.

“I will continue to support the IDF and the chief of staff in the face of irresponsible politicians who are trying to create political capital on the backs of the commanders who bear the burden of the war,” Gallant says in a statement.

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