Shas slams ‘inflated balloon’ Ben Gvir, warns he will bring down government

The ultra-Orthodox Shas party called Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir an “inflated balloon,” warning he would be responsible for bringing down the government as a coalition crisis deepened.

The heated rhetoric comes after Ben Gvir’s party refused to vote in favor of a key bill put forward by Shas, in protest over not getting a greater say over the running of the war.

“The right-wing bloc discovered this evening that Itamar Ben Gvir is nothing but an inflated balloon,” Shas says in a statement, highlighting a “series of embarrassing failures in his areas of responsibility.”

Shas calls Ben Gvir “all noise and no action” and warns his “childish antics and self importance” are doing everything it can to bring down the government from within.

“The right has always been brought down by people like him,” Shas says. “The public will judge.”