‘Worse than before Rabin assassination’ – Israeli leaders warn that anti-government protests fueling unprecedented incitement on the Left for violence against Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Israeli lawmakers and government ministers warned Sunday that the kind of political violence which marred a Trump campaign rally in Pennsylvania Saturday could be headed for Israel, potentially leading to the assassination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
On Sunday, coalition secretary Yossi Fuchs presented government ministers with a video highlighting a number of death threats made against Netanyahu amid the ongoing anti-government protests.
The protests, which began with Netanyahu’s indictments in November 2019 even before the current government’s judicial reform plan sparked a popular left-wing backlash, have been accompanied by a rise in threats of physical violence against the Israeli head of government – a pattern some lawmakers warned mirrored the period leading up to the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995.