TV: Yamina MK Silman’s husband had row with MK Kara, who then reversed plans to quit

Shmulik Silman, the husband of renegade Yamina MK Idit Silman, so offended Yamina’s Abir Kara that Kara abandoned plans to follow Silman out of the coalition last week, Channel 12 reports.

At a meeting last Wednesday, the day that then-coalition whip Silman resigned from the coalition, depriving it of its majority, Idit and Shmulik Silman, Kara, and others held a meeting to finalize a wider planned formal breakaway from Yamina.

The meeting was making headway, when an unspecified dispute surfaced. At this point, Shmulik Silman, whom the Channel 12 story describes as “the architect” of his wife’s resignation, reportedly told Kara: “I’m running things here; you’re in my hands now.”

Kara “did not like the tone or the content” of Shmulik Silman’s remarks, the meeting deteriorated into a shouting match, Kara walked out, and he abandoned his intention to bolt the party, the report says.

Channel 12 says Kara has confirmed the story, but also said that Shmulik Silman has since apologized.

Shmulik Silman, by contrast, said he merely drove his wife to the meeting, and that the story is untrue, Channel 12 notes.

It is not clear from the report which, if any, other Yamina MKs attended the meeting and/or intended to join the exodus. Kara and fellow Yamina MKs Ayelet Shaked and Nir Orbach are all reported to have made various demands of party leader Prime Minister Naftali Bennett as their respective conditions for remaining in the party and the coalition.