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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Opposition MKs join criticism of Tally Gotliv for calling security guard ‘Judenrat’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Several opposition lawmakers are criticizing Likud MK Tally Gotliv for comparing a court security guard to the ‘Judenraete,’ Holocaust-era Jewish councils forced to do the Nazis’ bidding.
Gotliv made the remark after being kicked out of a hearing concerning the Qatargate scandal. She was ejected for disrupting the proceedings, and also called the guard who removed her an “animal.”
On X, The Democrats chairman Yair Golan calls Gotliv’s action a “provocation” but says, in a reference to the Qatargate allegations, that it is more important to focus on the fact that Qatar both funded “funded Hamas and the October 7 massacre” as well as “Netanyahu’s closest advisors.”
Blue and White-National Unity chairman Benny Gantz posts that the guard whom Gotliv insulted is an IDF reservist and grandson of Holocaust survivors and her rhetoric is “precisely what we must not have in the Knesset and in Israel’s public discourse.”
“As a son of Holocaust survivors, I say to MK Gottlieb: Apologize, and you should be ashamed,” he adds.
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, whose father was a Holocaust survivor, posts a description of the Judenraete and recounts Gotliv’s conduct in what appears to be an implied criticism of her actions.
In a statement, Yisrael Beytenu MK Yulia Malinovsky calls Gotliv’s behavior “calculated and planned” and accuses her of putting on a show for the cameras.
“The most worrying thing about the whole Tally Gotliv phenomenon is that, according to a recent poll conducted among Likud members, she ranks at the top. This is the new face of Likud,” Malinovsky states.
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