Jewish Home lashes out at Netanyahu for firing deputy defense minister

The Jewish Home party is incensed by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision not to reappoint Eli Ben-Dahan as deputy defense minister.

Ben-Dahan, a member of the party, lost his job last week following Avigdor Liberman’s resignation as defense minister. Under Israeli law, when a minister resigns his deputy must also do so, although the prime minister has the option to reappoint him.

“The cruelty of the prime minister’s people toward the Jewish Home party, this time with the dismissal of Deputy Defense Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, is an unfair and unjust act toward an honest and moral public servant,” the party says in a statement.

“The prime minister would not behave this way toward any other party,” it adds. “We call on the prime minister to reverse this decision.”