Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli was harshly criticized Thursday for linking the assassination of former Prime Minister the late Yitzhak Rabin to political opponents Benjamin Netanyahu and Itamar Ben Gvir.
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Speaking at an Israel Hayom pre-election conference, Michaeli said, Rabin was killed "in a political assassination with the cooperation of Benjamin Netanyahu and Ben Gvir at the time."
Calling Michaeli's statements "dangerous," Ben Gvir said they stemmed from "her seeing the polls, which show that the Religious Zionist Party will garner 15 seats, while her faction is barely garnering the minimum."
"Michaeli's dangerous incitement repeatedly crosses red lines and legitimizes harming me. It's not for nothing that the level of threats against me has risen recently and the Knesset guard has had to increase its security for me," he said.
Likud MK Yoav Galant also criticized Michaeli and urged her to apologize.
"I condemn Merav Michaeli's reckless and irresponsible statement, and call on her to retract it and apologize. Shame," he wrote on Twitter.
Similarly, fellow Likud lawmaker Keti Shitrit accused Michaeli of "having lost it."
"The pressure from the electoral threshold is understandable, but you have to restrain yourself. An inciting, false and dangerous statement that endangers Netanyahu. Take it back and apologize."
The Labor chief previously made waves by saying it would be a "shame" to invest in transportation in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank, as she believes the area will not be part of Israel in the future, and announcing she would approve the operation of the Tel Aviv light rail on Shabbat.
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