‘You showed us how much you despise us’: Northern mayors tear into minister over insufficient support

Education Minister Yoav Kisch and the Home Front Command chief reportedly held a heated meeting with the mayors of northern towns earlier today, with the municipal leaders fuming at Kisch over what they felt was the IDF’s insufficient strike on Hezbollah yesterday, which they felt did not go far enough in restoring deterrence against the Lebanese terror group.

Education Ministry representatives at the meeting told the northern town mayors that their communities would receive support based on the needs of each individual municipality, Kan reports. The border towns are slated to soon decide whether they will reopen their schools or whether classes will be held in other locations due to the security situation.

Mateh Asher Regional Council chair Moshe Davidovitch lashed out at Kisch, saying he wouldn’t reopen schools that aren’t fully protected, Kan says.

“I’m done with the show. We don’t start a school year in an unprotected place. We won’t allow another Majdal Shams,” he say, referring to a Druze town with limited bomb shelters, where by a Hezbollah drone killed children playing soccer last month.

“The residents will suffer because [of this decision], but later they will be thankful that no one was hurt. Yesterday you showed us how much you despise us,” Davidovitch said, according to Kan.

“This government will never, ever be forgiven. The fact that you abandon us and burn us alive will forever be recorded. You abandon us and toss us to the dogs. The residents don’t matter to you. I’ve decided that I will no longer communicate with the government. We shouted, and we got nothing. I’m saying this in the name of all the municipality heads. I don’t care about anything except our residents — the children who wet the bed [out of fear], the residents who died in this war,” he declared.