Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has officially dismissed Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, citing a lack of mutual trust that has widened since the onset of Israel’s wars on Gaza and Lebanon.
Gallant, a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party since 2019, will be replaced by Foreign Minister Israel Katz. Gideon Saar, a minister without a portfolio, will step into Katz’s former role.
Following the dismissal of Gallant, leader of ‘The Democrats’ party Yair Golan, has called for daily mass protests and a general strike across Israel.
Another political activist from the youth wing of the left-leaning of the Meretz party, Eliran Bykhovsky, criticised the timing of Gallant’s firing, accusing Netanyahu of exploiting US preoccupation with its election.
Netanyahu looks like a supervillain. I wonder if he became the way he is because of how society treated him because of his looks, or if he was just the way he is and he looks like a villain.