Michaeli says protesters will ‘take to the streets week after week until we replace you’

Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli speaks at a Labor faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli speaks at a Labor faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Labor chief Merav Michaeli, the former transportation minister, says the current government is destroying everything the past coalition managed to achieve.

“This group of pyromaniacs are going ministry by ministry and simply destroying and ruining,” Michaeli says at the outset of the Labor faction meeting in the Knesset. “These are not publicly elected officials; they are a group of demolition contractors.”

Michaeli says the protests against the government over the weekend “are just the beginning. Make no mistake: We will take to the streets, week after week, until we replace you.”

The former transportation minister slams government proposals to limit rail work over Shabbat: “Remember when Netanyahu promised that everything would be OK and nothing would happen?” she asks about such demands, noting that his promise appears to be already broken.

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