Yair Lapid, the leader of the opposition in parliament and former prime minister, has called on Benjamin Netanyahu to “cancel” the dismissal of Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.
Lapid told a meeting of lawmakers from his Yesh Atid party that Israel could not afford to change its defence minister at this time.
“Let us go to the president’s residence, and start a national dialogue at the end of which we will have a constitution based on the Declaration of Independence, and a state in which we all live together with mutual respect,” he said.
He added that the prime minister had sacked Gallant “for one reason only – he was telling the truth”.
The defence minister, a member of Mr Netanyahu’s Likud party, had called for the judicial overhaul to be stopped to leave more time for dialogue, warning of a “clear, immediate and tangible danger to the security of the state”.
Source: BBC
