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Thursday, March 24, 2022
Public security minister sparks anger over joke about deadly terror attack
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Public Security Minister Omer Barlev has apparently doubled down on a joke about him flubbing a speech at a funeral for a terror victim, winkingly referencing it in a Twitter post on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Barlev, who oversees the police, sparked anger when he vowed at the funeral of Doris Yahbas to not rest until her killer was found and brought to justice, despite the fact that the alleged terrorist, who stabbed her to death and killed three others, died at the scene after being shot by passersby.
The screw-up poured salt in the wounds of Beersheba locals who had already complained that they were abandoned by police, who didn’t show up until after the eight-minute-long murder spree had concluded. Barlev’s spokesperson claimed he had not planned to speak and got confused.
Unwilling to let it end there, Barlev on Thursday decided to poke fun at himself over the faux pas. Tweeting about a large number of illegal guns that had been seized, he wrote, “We won’t rest until we haven’t brought the smugglers to jail and made them face justice,” followed by a winking face emoji.
Barlev has now deleted the tweet and replaced it with one that leaves out the quip. He does not offer an explanation or apology.
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— עמר בר-לב (@omerbarlev) March 24, 2022
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