MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) verbally skewered Deputy Minister of Defense Matan Vilnai Wednesday in the Knesset plenum when Vilnai refused to give a straight answer to a parliamentary question.

Eldad had demanded that the Ministry of Defense explain why taxpayers had to foot the bill after a court ordered Maj.-Gen. Elazar Stern to compensate a soldier after Stern leaked military documents that were used by a journalist who slandered the soldier.