Opposition leader Yair Lapid insinuates that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in a bad emotional state on October 7, 2023, as Hamas’s brutal massacre in southern Israel was unfolding, hinting at a story that the premier would not want to go public.
“I want to remind you,” Lapid says to the prime minister from the Knesset podium, “You and I met on October 7, 2023. I suggest that you don’t speak to me about withstanding pressure. I saw you then. Out of respect for the prime minister, I won’t say what I saw that day.”
The opposition leader’s quip came after the prime minister commented on a speech Lapid gave at a rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday night in which he vowed to topple the government.
“I don’t want to say that there’s no pressure on the opposition leader, but there’s no need to get carried away. You’ve gotta stay calm,” Netanyahu said of Lapid’s fiery speech.
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