Posted 1/14/2024, 1:29:00 PM
Israeli cabinet tensions flare over far-right push to install hardline interim prison chief
- Israeli cabinet approves Ben-Gvir's proposal to appoint his security adviser as interim prison commissioner
- Appointment violates agreement that brought Gantz's party into wartime government
- Gantz urged cabinet to vote against Ben-Gvir's proposal
- Appointment seen as victory for far-right in new government
- Come after resignation of previous commissioner amid prisoner escape scandal