Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has strongly criticized the leaders of the Blue-and-White and Labor-Gesher Parties during his speech at the Knesset meeting in memory of assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Netanyahu said, "What we have heard here and on Mount Herzl is actually breaching statesmanship and making the session an unrestricted political one. I thank Benny Gantz and Amir Peretz who are so worried about my future. You referred to the state of Israeli democracy and I said that the root of democracy is an argument."