After Gallant’s dismissal and Trump’s victory, Netanyahu has free rein

After Gallant’s dismissal and Trump’s victory, Netanyahu has free rein
After Gallant’s dismissal and Trump’s victory, Netanyahu has free rein

It was through a short letter that he gave him that the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced on November 5 to Yoav Gallant that he was terminating his duties as Minister of Defense. A staging which illustrates the rupture and the “crisis of confidence” between the two men.

Yoav Gallant explains that he was dismissed for three reasons: his opposition to an exemption from compulsory military service for some of the ultra-Orthodox, his positions in favor of an agreement for the return of hostages to Gaza and the end of the fighting against Hezbollah as well as his calls for the formation of a commission of inquiry into October 7.

Positions which came into confrontation with Benyamin Netanyahu and his far-right allies, who took a hard line on the war. But also with the ultraorthodox, who are fighting to prevent the conscription of members of their community.

Gallant was “the representative of the opposition within the government and the national security cabinet”, underlines a columnist of Ynetnews, the English-language site of the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot.

Gallant’s dismissal thus increases Netanyahu’s political and military room for maneuver, who could take advantage of it to launch a

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