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Monday, October 22, 2018
Lapid lambastes Netanyahu for calling heckler ‘boring’
Yesh Atid chair Yair Lapid slams Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his comments last week to a heckler who he said was “boring.”
“The State of Israel has serious problems and a prime minister who has lost patience to deal with them,” Lapid tells his faction meeting at the Knesset.
Highlighting the fact that life expectancy in Israel’s “periphery” is three years less than in the center of the country, Lapid says that Netanyahu prefers to attack citizens with real complaints rather than deal with them.
“It is time for the government to work hard and seriously deal with the real problems of the citizens of the State of Israel,” Lapid concludes.
— Raoul Wootliff