Yair Lapid: Netanyahu’s government is a national disaster for Israel

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid considered, on Friday, that what exists in Israel isn’t a government but rather a “national disaster”.

This came as a comment on the verbal altercation that took place on Thursday evening, during a meeting of the Mini-Ministerial Cabinet for Security and Political Affairs, in the presence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Lapid wrote on X, saying that the cabinet session was an “unprecedented decline in the level”.

He added, “In the midst of the war, the ministers attack the Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, Herzi Halevy, and try to humiliate him, and the prime minister doesn’t stop them”.

He continued, “National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who supports terrorism and didn’t serve in the army, attacks the former Chief of Staff and former Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, a hero of Israel”.

Lapid added, “The other ministers are also trying to humiliate the leaders of the Israeli army… This isn’t a government; this is a national disaster”.

On Thursday evening, ministers in Netanyahu’s government, including Ben Gvir, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and Transportation Minister Miri Regev, attacked the army chief of staff, following news that the former had formed a committee to investigate the fiasco of Hamas October 7 attack.

In addition to objecting to the formation of the committee, the ministers also objected to “the presence of Mofaz at its head”.

The leader of the far-right “Jewish Power” party, Itamar Ben Gvir, and some ministers object to the idea of ​​establishing an investigation committee into the fiasco of October 7, while the war against the Gaza Strip is still ongoing.

Ben Gvir also rejects that Mofaz assumed the presidency of the committee, as he considers him “one of the main architects of the illegal separation (Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005)”.