Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid opens the party’s faction statement with comments on the terror attacks that took place today and yesterday.
“A few hours ago a terrorist stabbed the pregnant wife of a close friend of ours, a central figure in Yesh Atid. He is not only our flesh and blood, but part of our soul. We wish her and her baby a full and speedy recovery.”
Lapid’s comments on Michal Froman are particularly personal because she is the wife of Shivi Froman, who served as adviser to former education minister Shai Piron, who was a member of Yesh Atid.
On the murder of Dafna Meir yesterday, Lapid says, “Yesterday, Dafna Meir, a mother of six, was stabbed to death. Today, she was buried. She was a nurse; a person who spent her life saving the lives of others was murdered at the entrance to her house as she tried to protect her young daughter. Our security forces will capture these vile people and bring them to justice. I examined the international media today. How is it that Dafna’s face is not on the front page of every newspaper? How did we get to a point when the world looks at us and doesn’t care that a woman was stabbed at the entrance to her home?”
Chairman of the Yesh Atid party, MK Yair Lapid, seen during a faction meeting at the Knesset, Jerusalem, December 21, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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