Shas minister: I believe Netanyahu will have to call elections within 90 days of war’s end

A minister from the Haredi Shas party says he believes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have no option other than calling elections within 90 days of the end of the Israel-Hamas war.

“At the end of the war, Netanyahu will be forced to go to the elections within 90 days. It will be before an investigative commission of one kind or another, in my opinion,” Labor Minister Yoav Ben-Tzur tells the Maariv newspaper.

“The prime minister himself will initiate the elections. We can’t continue like this any longer. The public will have its say and then we’ll see if Netanyahu gets a mandate,” he says, according to the Walla news site.

“Fairness requires that after such a terrible event, the public must have its say. The government will not be able to continue functioning in the current situation,” he says.

Netanyahu has remained adamant that only when the fighting is over will the question of who is responsible be raised.

Despite this, he has apparently sought to place blame on others for the colossal intelligence and policy failures leading up to the Hamas assault, the deadliest in Israel’s history.