Likud Election Candidate Apologies to PM Netanyahu
A bereaved father who placed 29th on the Likud slate by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, later apologized, saying he wrote the comment in a “storm of emotions” and “did not mean” it.
Likud candidate in the upcoming Knesset election and bereaved father Itzik Bonzel wrote in a Monday morning Facebook post that he wished "there were a way to turn back the clock and return" 88-year-old former hostage Yocheved Lifshitz "to Hamas."
Bonzel later apologized in a subsequent Facebook post.
"As a bereaved father, who lost his son in the war to return hostages, it pained me to see the harsh things that humiliated our soldiers, but in a storm of emotions, I wrote a sentence about Yocheved Lifshitz in the context of Hamas, which I did not mean, and I apologize," he wrote.
Bonzel, who was placed 29th on the Likud list for the Knesset by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and lost his son Amit early in the war in Gaza, made the remarks in response to Lifshitz's televised interview on Channel 13, in which she criticized the Netanyahu government.
Yocheved, whose husband was killed in captivity after being taken hostage alongside her from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, said in the interview: "Bibi [Netanyahu] didn't bring back a single hostage; Miriam Adelson bought us from Trump. If this government remains after the elections, it will be a disaster for the country."
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