Lapid: Netanyahu is an 'illegitimate prime minister'

At a meeting of the Yeah Atid-Telem faction in the Knesset, Lapid said he wrote the bill together with Gantz and Ashkenazi, and they told him they shared the same values.

By GIL HOFFMAN
Yair Lapid (photo credit: ELAD GUTMAN)
Yair Lapid
(photo credit: ELAD GUTMAN)
Opposition leader Yair Lapid called upon his former political partners, Blue and White leaders Benny Gantz and Gabi Ashkenazi, to support a bill preventing an indicted MK from being prime minister.
At a meeting of the Yeah Atid-Telem faction in the Knesset, Lapid said he wrote the bill together with Gantz and Ashkenazi, and they told him they shared the same values.
Lapid mocked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for expressing concern about threats that he had received. He noted that Netanyahu is one of the most protected people on earth.
Lapid called Netanyahu an "illegitimate prime minister." 
Top figures in the legal establishment like Chief Justice Esther Chayut and Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit, and top journalists like Raviv Drucker and Guy Peleg are in greater danger, Lapid told the MKs.
"Netanyahu is not in danger, but he is a danger," he said.
Likud faction chairman Mikki Zohar responded that "barely anyone listens to Lapid anymore."