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‘Israel is not a protectorate’: Lapid says he hopes report of Huckabee interfering in coalition crisis on PM’s behalf not true
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee meets with Jerusalem Affairs Minister Meir Porush on June 5, 2025. (Courtesy)
Following a Channel 13 report revealing that US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is meeting with Haredi lawmakers to convince them not to break up the government, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid says he hopes it is not correct.
“Since I have no doubt that Ambassador Huckabee respects Israel’s independence and its democracy, I hope and believe that the report that he is interfering in Israel’s internal politics and trying to help Netanyahu [deal with] the ultra-Orthodox in the military draft law crisis are not true. Israel is not a protectorate,” Lapid tweets.
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