Posted on 01/10/21
| News Source: Times of Israel
Gideon Sa’ar, the leading challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the run-up to the March elections, accused his rival on Saturday of overseeing “a focused attack on all of the institutions of the state” and vowed to prevent in Israel the kind of assault on democracy witnessed in the US this week.
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Sa’ar, a former Likud minister who quit the party a month ago to set up his own “New Hope” party ahead of the March 23 vote, said the mob invasion of the US Capitol on Wednesday “teaches us about the dangers of extremism” and the dangers of “claiming elections are being stolen before and after the vote. “People “draw conclusions that destabilize democracy,” Sa’ar told Channel 13 news. “It’s very dangerous.”
Read more at Times of Israel.