MK Yehuda Glick says that his fellow Likud Knesset member Oren Hazan should “suspend himself” if he committed the acts that he is accused of — namely, taking crystal meth and hiring prostitutes for his associates when he was managing a casino in Bulgaria.
Glick, speaking about a court decision that threw out away a libel suit by Hazan against Channel 2, which had reported the claims against him, says that today is “a difficult day for Likud, a difficult day for the Knesset, and a difficult day for me personally.”
Likud MKs Yehuda Glick, left, and Oren Hazan during a protest outside the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on July 14, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
He tells Channel 2 that Hazan is a “friend” who helped him on more than one occasion.
Still, Glick continues, the actions attributed to Hazan — the judge confirmed Hazan had taken meth and said it was possible he had also solicited prostitutes — are “completely inappropriate for a public official.
“If he is indeed guilty of these things, it would be right for him to take a step back and suspend himself,” he says.
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