Odeh blasts PM for saying Joint List MKs shouldn't lead Knesset committees

Joint List chief Ayman Odeh denounces interim Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for saying that members of the majority Arab party shouldn’t be heads of Knesset committees.

“Heads of hospital departments — yes. Heads of Knesset committees — no,” Odeh writes in a tweet.

“By the way, the votes of construction workers, teachers and engineers matter. All manner of work honors the person who performs it — except for interim prime minister,” he says.

The Joint List party chairman is referring to a comment by Netanyahu that the reason why his Likud party is blocking the formation of the Knesset is that the Blue and White party wouldn’t promise not to allow members of the majority Arab party to head committees in the parliament.