Ra’am chief denies demanding Bennett oust Yamina member from Knesset

15 May 2022, 4:46 pm

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Then-prime minister Naftali Bennett (left) speaks to Ra'am leader MK Mansour Abbas in the Knesset, on November 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ra’am chief Mansour Abbas denies a report that his Islamist faction demanded Prime Minister Naftali Bennett force out a member of the premier’s Yamina party from the Knesset for visiting the Temple Mount.

Abbas’s comments to the Kan public broadcaster come as opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu shares a false report on social media claiming a Ra’am lawmaker said in a radio interview that the party did in fact demand Yamina’s Yomtob Kalfon be ousted from the Knesset, before deleting the post.