In the Sufadi coalition, the opposition welcomes: After a year and a week as prime minister, Naftali Bennett announced today (Wednesday) that he will not run in the upcoming elections.
After updating Bennett's girlfriend to the right-wing party, Interior Minister MK Ayelet Shaked, who claimed that Bennett's retirement was a "great loss to the state."
President Yitzhak Herzog also took the opportunity to thank Bennett and said he "wishes him success in his future endeavors."
Opposition groups, on the other hand, took the opportunity to attack Bennett and condemn the government he formed.
MK Miri Regev from the Likud tweeted:
Blessed are we who have been freed from this punishment.
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- Miri Regev (@regev_miri) June 29, 2022
Similarly, rebel right-wing MK Amichai Shikli took the opportunity to express his disgust at Bennett's move to become prime minister. On Twitter, he tweeted:
There are no shortcuts.
- Amichai Chikli - Amichai Chikli (@AmichaiChikli) June 29, 2022
In addition, the chairman of Torah Judaism, MK Moshe Gafni, responded to Bennett's retirement from public life: "It turns out that HaKadosh Baruch is running the world. "Against us for harsh statements on our part against him and against this evil government, it turns out that we were right in every word. Everyone left him, he was left alone and now he too is going to face shame."
The chairman of Religious Zionism, MK Bezalel Smutrich, also referred to the retirement and claimed that the decision was not really made by Bennett:
The decision to retire from political life is not his, but that of the public who are fed up with him and vomited him out of it.
- Bezalel Smutrich (@bezalelsm) June 29, 2022
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