Benyamin Netanyahu, from bringing Likud into line to attacking counter-powers

For having called for an investigation into October 7 and the death of his son, Rafi Ben Shitrit has become a “leftist”. The man was however mayor of Bet She’an, a stronghold of Benjamin Netanyahu. He led the local Likud chapter and organized the prime minister's campaigns.

“I opposed Oslo, I opposed the withdrawal from Gaza, I opposed the creation of a Palestinian state,” he lists. “And yet, because I demanded a commission of inquiry, today I am considered a leftist,” he adds.

His son, Alroy Ben Shitrit, was twenty years old when he was killed fighting Hamas on the Nahal Oz base on October 7, 2023. Since then, the former mayor has called for a state commission of inquiry into the military, security and political responsibilities for the disaster.

“The State is more important than the party, more important than its leader,” insists this son of Jewish immigrants from Meknes, Morocco. “The Kingdom is more important than the king”…