Gideon Sa’ar indicates he no longer supports boycotting Netanyahu

National Unity minister Gideon Sa’ar indicates he no longer believes that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be boycotted.

In an interview with the Knesset Channel, Sa’ar was asked if political boycotts, including specifically of Netanyahu, need to cease, to which Sa’ar answered: “In my opinion, yes.”

However, Sa’ar also said he had not changed his personal opinion of Netanyahu.

He said that after a new election is held, politicians must respect the will of the public.

Sa’ar, a former Likud minister, was pushed out of Likud after challenging Netanyahu for the leadership of the party several years ago.

National Unity, under Benny Gantz, joined Netanyahu’s coalition as an emergency measure at the start of the war.

Before that, the party had refused to sit with Netanyahu, who is on trial in three corruption cases and was accused of trying to undermine Israel’s democracy with his far-right government’s judicial overhaul that has since been suspended.