Netanyahu defends admonishing heckler

16 October 2018, 5:25 pm

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defends his rebuke of a woman who interrupted a speech he gave this morning, after drawing flak from opposition figures over his response.

Netanyahu was speaking about the death of his lawyer Yaakov Weinroth during the inauguration of a new emergency room in Kiryat Shmona when he was interrupted by a woman protesting the closure of an emergency room in the area. “You’re boring,” Netanyahu responded.

“I’m used to criticism and I have no problem with heckling,” Netanyahu writes on his personal Twitter account. “But today, in deep sorrow and grief, I felt that it simply was not appropriate.”