Amr Bar Lev: "In the end, Ben Gabir will retire from the government"

Amr Bar Lev, former Minister of Internal Security, spoke this morning (Thursday) with Sion Cohen on her program on 103FM and referred to the Knesset members' ascension to the Temple Mount on Jerusalem Day , including National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gabir . When asked what he thought about it, he replied: "It's a matter of responsibility, I think it was a wrong thing, which required the security establishment to invest more efforts around his immigration. It's a shame that he decided to do that, but there are so many things that it's a shame that the TikTok minister doing so another thing was added."

To the question of whether Ben Gabir is going to dismantle the current government, Bar Lev said that "this crisis is a crisis whose purpose, like all the actions of the TikTok minister, is communication. The main problem is that in the four months he has been minister, internal security in Israel has deteriorated in a way that has not been seen in many years. Because the ability His guidance and his management, we all see that they are non-existent, so in my opinion it is only a matter of time until he starts blaming the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense for all his failures. Eventually he will retire from the government, will it take a month or eight? Of course I don't know , but there is no doubt that the only thing that interests him is his media appearances. Internal security is collapsing, simply collapsing under him."

As far as the distribution of coalition funds is concerned, the former minister noted: "There is no doubt that it is important to strengthen the Negev and the Galilee, so I do not get into the political issue around this point. But the way in which it is conducted, an elephant in a china shop is a delicate description, and we see again, its main role is To increase the internal security of the citizens of the State of Israel and what is happening is exactly the opposite – a failed minister who will continue to fail, it is not within his abilities."

Bar Lev was asked why he didn't demonstrate last night in Bnei Brak, and he replied that "I am a private citizen, and as a private citizen, who of course opposes the regime coup, in places where I can come and demonstrate, influence, and in places where I can also carry things, I do that. In places where I can't, I Not doing it. I will continue to come to the demonstrations. From a member of the government I have returned to being a citizen concerned like most of the citizens of the State of Israel about these coup attempts. I will continue to take part in the future.

Finally, we were asked if this is still a protest about the planned reform in the judicial system, or if it is a broader protest, to which he replied: "The protest is about the reform, that is the focus of the protest. Of course there are all kinds of issues that are fully or partially related to the protest. I am not a part of it. From the organizers of the protest, etc., I am a private citizen in this matter. Therefore, the strategic decisions of the protest leaders, whether to add this or that issue to the protest, they make their own considerations. I agree with most of them. But it does not matter, I think that this protest achieved an achievement Huge – the coup has been stalled and today there are talks at the president's house, which I really hope will be successful. If they are not successful, I believe there is a great chance that we will not return to the situation we were in a month and a half ago and that this coup will not happen."

Assisted in the preparation of the article: Shani Romano 103FM