ALREADY DEMANDING: Ben-Gvir Says He Should Be Public Security Minister in Next Government

Itamar Ben-Gvir, the controversial far-right lawmaker who’s become a political lightning rod in Israel’s elections, is demanding that he be named Public Security Minister in the event a right-wing government is formed. “I intend to demand the post of public security minister in the right-wing government that, b’ezrat hashem, will be established,” Ben-Gvir said at a press conference. The Otzma Yehudit chairman cited recent terror attacks as the reason for his demand. “Our enemies have gone out over the last year on a campaign of murder in Chadera, Ariel, Bnei Brak, Tel Aviv, and all around the country with the goal of massacring Jews,” Ben-Gvir said, accusing current Public Security Minister Omer Bar Lev of “falling asleep on the watch.” Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit party has been surging in national polls in recent weeks and is now expected to win the second-most seats of the right-wing bloc after Netanyahu’s Likud. For his part, Netanyahu said that he “doesn’t disqualify” Ben-Gvir from becoming Public Security Minister, but said that “there are a lot of candidates.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

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