Yair Golan, chairman of the Democrats party, filed a defamation lawsuit against Sara Netanyahu on Thursday over suggesting that he had advance knowledge of Hamas’ October 7 attack.
In late August, the pro-Netanyahu Channel 14 aired an interview with the prime minister’s wife, during which she was asked about separate comments made by Golan, the center-left Democrats leader and former deputy IDF chief who rescued people fleeing the Nova massacre on October 7.
She then invoked the “betrayal from within” conspiracy theory, popular among right-wing supporters of Netanyahu, which alleges that Golan and other senior figures knew in advance of the impending attack | @NoaShpigel
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