The Yesh Atid refused to support a bill submitted by National Unity MK Matan Kahana on Wednesday regarding pension payments to widows of fallen IDF soldiers.
Why? The law was submitted jointly with Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har Melech. The Yesh Atid party boycotted the vote because they refused to have anything to do with a bill submitted by a member of Itamar Ben Gvir’s party, and the bill failed to win a majority in a plenum vote.
A furor broke out in the Knesset, with the members of Benny Gantz’s National Unity party hurling insults at Yesh Atid members. MK Pnina Tamano-Shata yelled: “You’re a garbage opposition.”
Kahana wrote on X: “It turns out you actually can mobilize. When you need to mobilize the coalition against IDF widows, you do it excellently.”
Earlier this week, Yesh Atid MK Merav Ben-Ari admitted in an interview with the Knesset Channel this week that the only ideology left-wing parties have is “No Bibi.” Apparently, they have one more ideology: “No Ben-Gvir.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
Join the official YWN WhatsApp status
One Response
How many IDF widows live in his ritzy neighborhood in Tel Aviv? A former IDF Chief of Staff once remarked that he never had to go be menachem aveilim in that neighborhood…