Netanyahu Told to Quit After Disastrous Response to Hamas Attack
Netanyahu was fighting for his political survival before the Hamas attack on 7 October.
Yair Lapid, the former soap opera star and ad pitchman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opposition leader, called on his successor to step down because the Israeli government is “not functioning.”
“We need change — Netanyahu cannot continue to be prime minister. We cannot allow ourselves to conduct a prolonged campaign with a prime minister that the public has no faith in,” he said, according to The Times of Israel.
Lapid said the coalition will “sit [in government] under another candidate from the Likud,” the paper said.
Netanyahu, who was facing mounting pressure due to his push for a sweeping judicial overhaul in Israel, was told repeatedly that a major attack was looming but brushed off the warnings for the months before the 7 October Hamas attack.