Sa’ar slams Lapid for criticism of plot to appoint him defense minister

Opposition party New Hope chief Gideon Sa’ar launches a scathing diatribe against Opposition Leader Yair Lapid.

Earlier today, Lapid expressed his outrage over a plot being hatched in the government to try and replace Defense Minister Yoav Gallant with Sa’ar, saying that appointing someone with no security experience in the middle of a war “means that our politics has lost its sanity.”

Sa’ar responds with a long post on X, where he questions Lapid’s lack of security experience and boasts about his many years in the security cabinet and top security committees.

“What I understand about national security issues, Lapid has no chance of knowing even if he was an eager student — and he’s not,” Sa’ar writes, adding that most of Lapid’s experience comes from his time as a television presenter.

“Anyone who heard what Lapid had and has to say in the last year during the most serious war in Israel’s history was shocked. Zero insights, zero depth, zero strategic understanding. He doesn’t even understand what it means to understand security,” Sa’ar says.