Protester demands PM's resignation at Holocaust wreath ceremony: 'He failed to protect us'

A protester demanding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s resignation disrupts the wreath-laying ceremony at Yad Vashem.

Video from the event at the national Holocaust museum and memorial in Jerusalem shows a man yelling for the prime minister to resign, declaring, “We must not descend into the abyss again. What else is necessary for you to go home?”

“Let the people of Israel remember their abandoned sons,” he shouts, referring to the hostages held in Gaza.

“I had no hesitation. What is very clear is that he failed in a very serious way to protect the people of Israel,” the man tells the Ynet news site.

Only weeks after October 7, polling found 80 percent of Israelis calling for Netanyahu to publicly accept responsibility for the staggering failures that led to Hamas’s devastating onslaught on October 7. Last month, another poll found that sixty-two percent of Israelis — both Jewish and Arab — believe it is time for those responsible for the failures of October 7 to resign from their positions.