Opposition leaders slam Netanyahu government following Liberman’s resignation

Opposition leaders use Avigdor Liberman’s stepping down as defense minister to slam the Netanyahu government and to call on the prime minister to resign as well.

Zionist Union chair Avi Gabbay welcomes Avigdor Liberman’s resignation as defense minister, saying, “That’s how it should be. You failed at the job — you resigned,” and adding that Netanyahu should follow suit.

“There is no security for the residents of the south, and therefore the prime minister must also resign. He is responsible for security just like the defense minister,” Gabbay charges in a statement released immediately after Liberman’s announcement.

“Let’s go to elections,” he says, promising that he will be able to “restore security.”

MK Yair Lapid, head of the Yesh Atid party, says Liberman’s resignation “reinforces the fact that the prime minister caved to terror at the expense of the residents of the south.”

— with Raoul Wootliff and Raphael Ahren