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Thursday, August 1, 2024
Lapid to receive security briefing from Netanyahu for 1st time in two months
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 is set to receive a security briefing from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at 5 p.m. at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, his first in two months.
The leader of the opposition is traditionally briefed once a month by the sitting prime minister on sensitive national security issues.
Lapid has been extremely critical of Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza and in the north, telling the Knesset earlier this month that “this government is failing to manage the country, the war, the economy, our relationship with the United States, and it’s losing the hostages, who are wasting away and being murdered and dying underground.”
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