Likud minister accuses anti-government protesters of being funded by Iran

5 May 2025, 6:45 pm 2 Edit

Regional Cooperation Minister David Amsalem at a Knesset session, December 16, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg FLASH90)

Regional Cooperation Minister David Amsalem accuses anti-government protesters of receiving funding from Iran during a speech in the Knesset plenum.

“I am completely convinced that in all of the funding of all the protests you have organized in the State of Israel over the past two and a half years, there is significant Iranian money involved,” says the Likud minister.

He recalls that, in recent months, the Shin Bet has arrested several people charged with, among other things, spreading anti-government slogans on behalf of Iran.

Based on this, he says, it seems “completely logical” that they would also funnel money into protests via third parties.