Gantz vows any overhaul laws will be abolished by a future coalition he ‘forms or takes part in’

Opposition party head Benny Gantz call for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire Orit Stock, a far-right minister who this morning compared Israel’s security heads to the Wagner Group.

“Netanyahu should fire her,” Gantz says at the outset of his National Unity party’s Knesset faction meeting. “No condemnations or clarifications,” he adds, in reference to a statement Netanyahu made earlier today.

“Every minute she remains in office is a blow to national security,” Gantz charges, saying: “What message does this send to the forces on the ground? For citizens who need to obey the law?”

Maintaining a pro-IDF line, the ex-defense minister and former military chief similarly says National Unity is against reservists refusing to serve, even if in protest against what he calls the coalition’s “judicial coup.”

“We appreciate the people who express their concern,” he says, but “we are against refusals.”

Gantz, who pulled ahead of Netanyahu’s Likud in a Channel 12 poll last night, says that he would reverse any judicial overhaul legislation as part of a future government.

“In any government that I establish or take part in the future, I will ensure their abolition is established by legislation,” he says.