The prime minister’s chief of staff Yoav Horowitz met with Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz in an attempt to end a public feud over canceled train construction work on Shabbat, Army Radio reports.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims Katz created the spat between Likud and leaders of ultra-Orthodox parties last week when he ordered the continuation of construction projects over the weekend, ostensibly in order to avoid train delays.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen next to Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz at the weekly cabinet meeting at Netanyahu’s office in Jerusalem, September 4, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
The meeting apparently signals Netanyahu does not intend to fire Katz.
Last night Horowitz accused Yisrael Katz of trying to carry out a “putsch” against Netanyahu. Horowitz said that the political maneuver caused deliberate harm to soldiers and other train passengers.
According to Horowitz, Katz promised the religious parties that there would not be any nonessential work on Shabbat, but suddenly presented 20 projects that he claimed had to be carried out on the weekend.
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