Netanyahu shares post by Likud minister suggesting Ehud Barak should be imprisoned

Former prime minister Ehud Barak speaks at a protest in Tel Aviv against the government's planned judicial overhaul, February 25, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)
Former prime minister Ehud Barak speaks at a protest in Tel Aviv against the government's planned judicial overhaul, February 25, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promotes a social media post by a minister in his Likud party suggesting former premier Ehud Barak should be imprisoned.

In the post shared by Netanyahu, Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi rails at Barak’s calls for “non-violent civil disobedience” and a “revolt” against the government’s push to overhaul the judicial system.

“Where is Attorney General Baharav-Miara? Shin Bet chief Bar? Police Commissioner Shabtai?” Karhi writes in the post. “The time has come to take the law seriously, open an investigation and stop the campaign of sedition by Ehud Barak and his friends.”

Karhi then notes that those convicted of “acts of sedition” can get five years in the slammer.

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi at the plenum hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on May 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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