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Opposition MK Kahana says Netanyahu needs to rein in Levin, Rothman

9 March 2023, 6:50 pm 1 Edit

Then-Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana speaks during a Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, on August 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

National Unity party MK Matan Kahana suggests that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs to rein in the coalition lawmakers chiefly responsible for the judicial shakeup plans.

“Netanyahu is the legal and only prime minister in Israel, his photo was hung up in my office 10 minutes after he was sworn in,” Kahana tells Army Radio in an apparent rejection of protesters who view Netanyahu as an illegitimate leader.

“He needs to call Levin and Rothman and tell them — you’re tearing apart the country, history will not forgive you,” Kahana adds of Justice Minister Yariv Levin and MK Simcha Rothman, chair of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee.