While tens of thousands are marching towards Jerusalem in protest against the judicial reform and many officers are threateningly refusing reserve duty, Secretary of Defense Gallant once again dares to come out of cover and demands a consensus. Can he still stop his own government?
If politics is made on a Shabbat evening in Israel, then something special must be on the agenda: a war, an explosive crisis – or the attempt to defuse such a crisis at the last minute. So at 9:55 p.m., the Ministry of Defense released a succinct statement saying that Minister Joav Gallant was now “taking steps to reach a broad consensus and ensure the security of the State of Israel.”