Bismuth responds to Ben Gvir: "He exaggerated the joke, the public didn't like it""

January 5, 2025   

MK Boaz Bismuth addressed this evening (Sunday) his bringing to the plenary during the 'swearing-in' of his mother, after the Otzma Yehudit party refused to compromise with him in the vote on the 'locked-up profits' law. "Ben Gvir sent me a message with an apology and I accepted it," he said in an interview with I24NEWS. "He thought about it and realized that he was making a big mistake. It's true, he made me not be at my mother's bar mitzvah dinner, and that's something important for every Jew. "Moreover, I saw the prime minister undergo painful surgery, and they brought him to the Knesset, which is an act that should not be done. Otzma Yehudit did a very un-Jewish act. However, he apologized but also said that he might repeat the act. Therefore, I ask him, decide, my friend, whether you are in the coalition or in the opposition.".  

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He noted that there was no previous conflict between the two. "In 2015, Itamar Ben-Gvir was not so popular and invited to panels. When I was a newspaper editor, he was given a platform by me, and that means there is nothing personal here. I think he took the insult seriously and I hope for him, for me, and for the entire Israeli public, that it will not happen again. The public really didn't like it.".