MK Moshe Feiglin (Zehut) launched a sharp attack Thursday morning on Yashar chairman Gadi Eisenkot, charging that the former IDF chief of staff is personally installing a representative of terror supporters in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, which Feiglin called “the holy of holies of Israel’s security.”
The attack came after Eisenkot urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to exercise restraint on security decisions during the current political transition.
“The former chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot is now bringing, with his own hands, into the holy of holies of Israel’s security, the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, the clear representative of terror supporters,” Feiglin wrote. “Of those same 19 Arab MKs who stood up and walked out during the national anthem. Of those who do not accept in any way or form the fact that the State of Israel is a Jewish state. Of those who still, after October 7th, refuse to recognize Hamas as a terror organization.”
Feiglin rejected any suggestion that the move could be accepted as a matter of political necessity. “This is not a technical error, and there is certainly no possibility of bearing it as a pragmatic political compromise,” he said. “This is an attack on the root of our identity and existence.”
According to Feiglin, “the moment we took our eye off the battle for the Jewish identity of the state, we got this fifth column inside the Knesset and inside the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.”
The Arrangements Committee of the 26th Knesset decided Wednesday on the makeup of the temporary Finance and Foreign Affairs and Defense committees, which will operate until a new government is formed. Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman was tapped to chair the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, and Ra’am’s No. 2, MK Yoav Segalovitz, was given a seat on the panel, making Ra’am the first Arab-majority party to be represented on the committee, according to Hebrew media reports.
Other members include, from Likud, Boaz Bismuth, Yaakov Bardugo, Ofir Katz and Elisha Madan; from Beyachad, Ram Ben-Barak and Keren Turner; from the Democrats, Yair Golan; from Otzma Yehudit, Limor Son Har-Melech; from United Torah Judaism, Elyakim Stark; from Shas, Yinon Azoulay; and from Religious Zionism, Simcha Rothman.
