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Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Likud slams Bennett for considering ex-general Yadlin for national security adviser job
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleRaoul Wootliff is a former Times of Israel political correspondent and Daily Briefing podcast producer.
The opposition Likud party slams Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s reported consideration of Institute for National Security Studies director Amos Yadlin as chairman of the National Security Council.
Likud says the move is “further evidence of the galloping left of his dangerous government, many of whose members support the displacement of Jews from their homes.”
Yadlin served as head of the IDF Military Intelligence Unit and was military attaché to Washington. He was the candidate of the center-left’s Zionist Union party for defense minister ahead of the 2015 election, and is seen as more moderate than the hawkish Bennett.
Likud praises Yadlin’s “contribution to Israel’s security as part of his military service” but says “his political views are deeply rooted in the left.”
“He advocates the establishment of a Palestinian state in the heart of our country, the displacement of settlements and Jews and the handing over of our land,” the Likud statement adds.
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