Yair Lapid
Opposition leader Yair Lapid threatened to shut down the economy should the government defy a High Court injunction against a Cabinet decision to fire Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar.
“Yair Lapid should be ashamed,” Likud lawmaker Tally Gotliv tells JNS.
A spokesman for Chabad told JNS that the worldwide Jewish movement “absolutely” does not involve itself in the politics of the Jewish state.
“The American president will decide how” to prevent this, the Israeli minister said.
The opposition leader defended himself after coalition members criticized his jab at MK Orit Strook.
An “almost inconceivable” amount of foreign funding was behind the “so-called ‘popular and spontaneous’ protest movement,” said the Israeli premier.
Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz said an agreement was as good as military action, but Avigdor Liberman doubted talks could block Tehran’s nuclear push.
The Likud Party would garner 33 mandates in the 120-seat Knesset if a vote were held now, according to a “Channel 14" survey.
“Netanyahu has a political safety net from the opposition for the deal—for every stage,” Lapid said in a statement ahead of the PM’s meeting with Trump.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families,” said the Israeli opposition leader.
“The one condition we have is that Hezbollah will go up to the Litani River,” Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid told JNS.
Doha “wants to reach an agreement as soon as possible, and is making every effort to make it happen,” the Israeli opposition leader said.
