Minister hits back at MK over claim she was promoted in army unfairly

Responding to MK Elazar Stern’s comment about her climbing the IDF ladder, which has been derided as sexist, Minister Miri Regev puts out a video calling for the Yesh Atid lawmaker to be suspended.

Brandishing a “#YouToo” placard, Regev calls Stern’s comment an “indictment against IDF brass and the advancement of women in the army.”

Stern had quipped that he knew how Regev, a former IDF spokesperson, made her way up the IDF ladder, but did not want to say, which many saw as him hinting she had slept her way to the top. He said it was a comment about her being too willing to kiss up to get promotions.

“Stern, tell us what you know, because I don’t know what you are talking about,” she says, calling him “sexist.”

Regev asks that probes be opened by the attorney general, the defense minister and the ethics committee to investigate any possible wrongdoing on the part of military officers in promoting her unlawfully.