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.
Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi told JNS on Sunday that left-wing leaders Yair Lapid and Yair Golan are competing “to see who will be the greater anarchist” by calling for an anti-government revolt.
“The greater the political distress, the deeper their moral decline,” said Karhi, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, in an apparent reference to Lapid’s recent decline in the polls.
Speaking at an anti-government protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, Lapid, who heads the Israeli opposition, threatened to shut down the economy should the government defy a High Court injunction against a Cabinet decision to fire Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Ronen Bar.