Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid called on the ministers of the “camp” party in the emergency government to withdraw from the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as it is a rescue government for Netanyahu and not for Israel, according to him.
Lapid said during a session of his party’s bloc in the Knesset that the ministers are not qualified to lead the war, and that Netanyahu is not qualified to lead the state.
He continued, “This is a government in which the mini-security cabinet has been turned into an arena for toxic attacks on the army. A government that, in the midst of war, continues to transfer billions to the coalition parties in an outrageous manner. A government that has no political action and no definition of a strategic goal for the war.”
Lapid said that this government is neither a unity government nor an emergency government seeking to save Israel, but rather its goal is to save Netanyahu.
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The Israeli opposition leader made his appeal, saying, “For the sake of our soldiers and the residents who were evacuated from the border towns and for the sake of our kidnappers, it is not right to keep the rule of Ben Gvir, Smotrich and Strok.”
In a parallel context, Israeli Minister Amichai Shkli announced his resignation – as Minister of Social Equality – from Netanyahu’s government as part of a plan to reduce the costs of government budgets.
The resignation comes in light of reports that the Prime Minister has developed a plan based on reducing a number of ministries in his government and working to close them with the aim of allocating their budgets to cover the costs of the war on the Gaza Strip.
According to Israeli media, the reduction and closure of some ministries comes to avoid dismantling the emergency government if the general budget is not approved in its current form.
The plan to reduce costs also comes to avoid a possible coalition crisis ahead of the expected discussion of the general budget during the next government session.