MK bashed for quip about how female minister got to IDF brass

6 November 2018, 2:20 pm

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Yesh Atid MK Elazar Stern is coming under fire over comments that appeared to allege a minister who was once head of the IDF’s Spokesperson’s Unit slept her way into her position.

Yesh Atid MK Elazar Stern attends a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on November 13, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

During a Knesset debate, Stern, himself a former general, quipped about Culture Minister Miri Regev that “I know how you advanced in the army.”

Likud MK Sharren Haskel accuses Stern of chauvinism and opposition lawmakers of hypocrisy for failing to reprimand him.

Stern says he was referring to Regev’s “over-enthusiasm in serving her masters” including during the 2005 disengagement from Gaza, when she became famous as the face of the IDF’s propaganda arm.

Stern is the former head of the IDF’s Manpower Directorate.