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Lapid calls on PM to fire Ben Gvir over ‘Hamas loves Biden’ tweet
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid calls on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir after he tweeted “Hamas loves Biden.”
“If Netanyahu does not fire Ben Gvir today, he is endangering every soldier in the IDF and every citizen in the State of Israel,” Lapid declares in a statement.
Ben Gvir was responding to US President Joe Biden’s threat to withhold arms in the event of a full-on Rafah incursion.
