Gantz calls on reservists to continue to serve ‘without conditions’

5 March 2023, 3:45 pm

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National Unity party leader Benny Gantz speaks to the media at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, March 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

National Unity party chief Benny Gantz, a former IDF chief of staff, calls on reservist soldiers to continue to show up for reserve duty even amid a wave of protest against the government’s plans to overhaul the judiciary.

“I call on reservists and those in active service — continue to serve, to show up no matter what,” Gantz says at a faction meeting for his party in the Knesset. “To protect this country with protests and to protect it with [military] forays… despite the pain.”

Gantz calls on them to “continue fighting for this country in battle and continue fighting for it in protest. We will win this struggle sooner or later. The State of Israel and its values are stronger than any one government.”