Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sacked his defence minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday, saying that “significant gaps” had emerged between them over the management of Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
Netanyahu said Gallant would be replaced as defence minister by the foreign minister, Israel Katz. He added that he had asked Gideon Sa’ar, a hawkish lawyer and former opponent who joined his government in September, to succeed Katz as foreign minister.
The deteriorating relationship between Netanyahu and Gallant has been an open secret for more than a year, and the prime minister mulled replacing his defence minister with Sa’ar earlier this autumn.
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