Gadi Eisenkot and the Political Race: Roni Mane Expresses Support

Businessman Roni Mane, who was previously considered one of the Netanyahu family's close associates and is now one of their prominent critics, met with Member of Knesset and former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot. In a post published on his Instagram account alongside a joint photo, Mane wrote: "I met with the amazing Eisenkot and strengthened him. Eisenkot, together with Avigdor Lieberman, will establish a new order in the country."

On the X network (formerly Twitter), Mane elaborated on the circumstances of the meeting and noted that he came specifically to support Eisenkot following remarks made in the media: "I traveled specifically to Gadi Eisenkot to hug him because of the slanderous words of Yinon Magal on the program 'The Patriots' about his children." According to Mane, Eisenkot replied to him:

"Out of respect for the children who fell in battle for the homeland, I do not want to respond; they do not deserve for us to drag them into this filth."

In addition, Mane addressed the claims that Eisenkot opposed a ground entry into the Gaza Strip during the war: "I asked him about the fact that all the sycophants say he did not want to enter Gaza, and he told me it is an absolute lie. Benjamin Netanyahu asked him if he had a problem with his son being at risk inside Gaza, and Eisenkot told him: 'Go for it'." Mane added, quoting Eisenkot, that "in the whole story of Gaza, Netanyahu is to blame, and if he had listened to his advice, dozens of hostages would be with us today."

Mane continued to attack the political claims attached to Eisenkot regarding a possible connection with the Ra'am party: "Regarding the fact that he will go with Abbas and they are attaching labels to him that are far from him, he told me: 'I expect Netanyahu to be quiet and not attach things that have not yet happened and will not happen'."

Mane concluded by hurling accusations against the Prime Minister's policy:

"Someone who hugged Arafat, the father of murderers, and called him 'my friend', voted for the disengagement, returned 13 percent of Hebron, and signed the Trump plan - when the 'absolute victory' remained on paper, Iran remained nuclear, and Hezbollah killed our soldiers with drones - it is better for him to shut up and not invent things that never happened."