Before boarding his plane Netanyahu decried the activities of the protestors – from blocking highways to calling for refusals to perform military reserve duties – and spoke of how when in his years as leader of the opposition he never called on people to take such extreme acti
The decision, announced by the Prime Minister’s Office on Tuesday, defused a crisis with journalists who had threatened to boycott the premier’s American trip over an earlier decision not to allow them to travel back to Israel on the same plane because of his rush to get back home ahead of Y
According to the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office’s announcement, the unusual decision relates to the time pressure of leaving after Shabbat and the urgency of arriving in Israel before the start of Yom Kippur.