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Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Lapid tweets that Kisch should ‘tweet less, do your job’ in spat over schools reopening
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Opposition Leader Yair Lapid posts on X that Education Minister Yoav Kisch should “tweet less and instead do your job,” after the two sparred on social media over Kisch’s aborted plan to reopen schools during the ongoing war with Iran.
The IDF Home Front Command announced on Monday evening that nationwide restrictions amid the war would remain in place, forcing Kisch to walk back an announcement that schools would gradually resume operations.
Ahead of the announcement, Lapid slammed Kisch on X, posting that Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich had pushed to “reopen the economy too early, without consulting his ministry staff and without coordinating with the education system,” in turn putting pressure on the education minister, who released “an outline for reopening the education system too early, without consulting the heads of teachers’ organizations and the National Parents Association.”
In response, Kisch accused Lapid of not knowing what he was talking about and “spreading lies,” and insisted that work on the outline had been conducted in collaboration with the relevant groups.
Hitting back, Lapid posts this morning that “a few hours after that smug tweet, it turned out I was right about every word, and you canceled the outline and announced that everything is postponed to Sunday.”
“Suggestion: Tweet less and instead do your job. The parents are collapsing,” Lapid adds.
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