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Likud MK tells family member of Oct. 7 victim to ‘get out of my sight’ during Knesset protest

By Sam Sokol 20 March 2024, 1:47 pm 9 Edit

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"

Yuli Edelstein attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee in the Knesset on February 26, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Yuli Edelstein attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee in the Knesset on February 26, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Senior Likud lawmaker Yuli Edelstein tells the uncle of a terror victim to “get out of my sight” after being handed a “dismissal letter” while walking down a Knesset hallway.

“Today is the day of dismissals. This entire coalition is dismissed,” Roni Neumann, whose niece Rotem Neumann was murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova music festival on October 7, tells Edelstein at the entrance to the parliament’s committee wing.

“This is the October 7 government,” he continues, after being brushed aside by Edelstein. “The chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee failed on security and he says get out of my sight.”

Edelstein is the chairman of the Knesset panel exercising oversight on security and diplomatic affairs.

“You are dismissed,” Neumann yells as the lawmaker walks away.

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