Opposition Leader Yair Lapid leads a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, December 25, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid responds to reports of threats against the military’s top commander in the West Bank, Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fox, saying they are “another disgraceful low.”
“Fox is a brave warrior, patriot, defender of Israel,” Lapid says in a statement. “The threats against his life are another disgraceful low of a messianic, violent and delusional group, which endangers Israel’s security while the IDF is fighting for our lives.”
According to Channel 12 news, Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar wrote a letter that was sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog, and all government ministers saying that criticism against Fox “may create a concrete threat to the general’s life and allow him to be harmed.”
“This is led by a small number of characters, but who are extremist and Kahanist,” Bar was quoted as writing, referring to followers of the late far-right extremist rabbi Meir Kahane.
Chief of the IDF Central Command Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fox speaks to reporters at the Salem checkpoint in the northern West Bank, July 3, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
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