Lapid brands Ben Gvir ‘worst’ police minister ever, urges Netanyahu to sideline him

8 June 2023, 4:52 pm

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Head of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset's assembly hall for a special session in memory of Israel's first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, on November 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Opposition leader Yair Lapid launches a scathing attack on National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir following the mass shooting in Yafa an-Naseriyye, calling him “the worst and most failed minister the police have ever known.”

“The number of criminal deaths in the Arab society is growing at a frightening pace,” Lapid says in a statement, urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to sideline Ben Gvir and manage the crackdown himself, “as I did during my term” as premier.

“It’s unacceptable for the number of murdered people to have jumped by 300% in a few months because of a continuous government failure.”