After opposition MKs criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for backtracking on his support in the previous government for capping the number of ministers, newcomer MK Yinon Magal (Jewish Home) fires back with a speech in the Knesset plenum where he posed to leaders of the opposition statistics from their past.
“Eitan Cabel, you are against ministers without portfolios? You were a minister without a portfolio,” Magal tells the Zionist Union MK, who wrote on his Faceook page that there was “no greater waste than a minister without a portfolio.”
Magal then turns to Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog and says: “You speak of an inflated government with 20 ministers? You were member of a government with 39 ministers and deputy ministers.”
Magal also criticizes Herzog’s co-leader in Zionist Union, Tzipi Livni. According to NRG, Magal asks her: “Are you against political bribes? You were a member of the [Ariel] Sharon government who one evening bribed eight deputy ministers in order to expel Jews from Gush Katif.”
Magal is referring to the politicking that preceded the vote on the Disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2005.
Jewish Home MK Yinon Magal (Photo credit: Flash90)
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