Lapid, the damage is already done – and your arrogance has no place in leadership

Dana Varon sharply attacks Yair Lapid for his dismissal of a security warning conveyed to him by Prime Minister Netanyahu, less than 24 hours before an aerial emergency in which a plane with a mostly Israeli contingent was close to disaster. The author accuses Lapid of arrogance and complacency, and compares his conduct to that of Netanyahu, who she says recognized the warning and acted with gravity.

Dana Varon sharply attacks opposition leader Yair Lapid for his dismissal of a security warning conveyed to him by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to her, Lapid left a meeting with Netanyahu, mocked the warning and called it a "spin", and less than 24 hours later an aerial emergency occurred in which a passenger plane with a mostly Israeli contingent was close to a historic disaster, averted by a miracle. Varon accuses Lapid of hypocrisy, arguing that the left has been screaming since October 7 that Netanyahu received warnings and did not act, but now that he receives warnings and alerts, he is met with disdain. She claims that the entire left has turned into a cheap campaign and election propaganda, devoid of national responsibility, and that the hatred for Netanyahu drives people out of their minds to the point of dismissing sensitive intelligence information. The article concludes that the event revealed who is a responsible leader and who is a populist, and that Lapid's arrogance has no place in leadership.