Labor MK Gilad Kariv files a police complaint against Likud activist Rinat Asor for making explicit threats against Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli.
In a recording published by the journalist Ben Caspit on Twitter, Asur was quoted as saying: “If it had been up to me, Minister Michaeli would have been executed.”
“This explicit incitement by a Likud activist against Minister Michaeli testifies with the weight of a thousand witnesses how those surrounding opposition leader [Benjamin] Netanyahu are tainted with blind hatred and a culture of political violence,” says Kariv, chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee.
“We see a clear connection between the criminal conduct of some Likud operatives and the cartoon published by Netanyahu himself in which a gun is pointed at the back of Prime Minister [Yair] Lapid, against the background of the controversy surrounding the agreement on the maritime border with Lebanon,” Kariv adds.
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