A Likud spokesman says in a statement distributed to Israeli media that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to fire Bezalel Smotrich from the cabinet if he did not apologize, after the politician slammed the premier as “weak,” with no ability to govern.
Smotrich says his comments were “said out of deep sorrow,” amid anger over Jews being banned from the Har Habayis on Sunday.
“Things were said in a way that was not fitting, especially not given the relationship between a prime minister and a minister in his government, and for that I am sorry,” he says.
Read more at Times of Israel.
{Matzav.com}
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