“Where Is PM’s Son”: Netanyahu’s Son Draws Fire For Staying In US Amid War

New Delhi:

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair is drawing hearth for remaining within the US at a time when almost 4 lakh children from his nation have joined the battle towards Hamas within the wake of the October 7 assaults. The shock assaults on Israel’s cities left about 1,400 useless and sparked a brutal retaliation that has killed over 5,000 in Gaza.

In response to stories, Yair moved to Florida earlier this yr. A photograph of the 32-year-old on a seashore has gone viral, with many claiming that he’s having fun with in Miami whereas his countrymen fly dwelling to affix the battle towards Hamas. NDTV can’t confirm the authenticity of the {photograph}.

The Instances spoke to one of many volunteers stationed on Israel’s northern entrance. “Yair is having fun with his life at Miami Seaside whereas I am on the entrance strains. It is us who’re leaving our work, our households, our youngsters, to guard our households again dwelling and the nation, not the people who find themselves chargeable for this example,” the soldier was quoted as saying.

One other soldier serving on the border with Gaza stated, “I’ve flown again from the States the place I’ve a job, a life, my household. There is no such thing as a approach I can keep there and abandon my nation, my individuals, at this important time. The place is the prime minister’s son? Why is not he in Israel?”

“It’s the most uniting second for us as Israelis in our latest historical past and each single one in all us ought to be right here proper now, together with the prime minister’s son,” he advised The Instances.

A podcaster by occupation, Yair is the son of Netanyahu’s third spouse Sara. A staunch defender of his father, Yair has typically courted controversy by his anti-Islamic social media posts. In 2018, his Fb account was blocked for twenty-four hours after he posted that there might be no peace in Israel until “all Muslims go away”. “There is not going to be peace right here till: 1. All of the Jews go away the land of Israel. 2. All of the Muslims go away the land of Israel. I choose the second possibility,” he wrote, in accordance with The Instances of Israel. “There’ll by no means be peace with these monsters within the type of males which have known as themselves ‘Palestinians’ since 1964,” Yair’s one other submit learn.

About 5 years again, Yair was caught in a row over a video outdoors a strip membership during which he was heard suggesting how his father allegedly pushed via a $20billion fuel deal for the advantage of a enterprise tycoon. The visuals sparked an enormous row, following which Yair apologised and Netanyahu put out a press release criticising his son.

Earlier this yr, The Instances of Israel reported that Netanyahu and his spouse Sara had reportedly advised Yair to cease posting on social media and never communicate immediately with lawmakers or ministers. This had come amid accusations that he was inflaming tensions in Israel and exacerbating a diplomatic rift with america.

Months again, an Israeli court docket requested Yair to pay $34,000 in damages to a girl after he made statements in a social media submit implying that she was in a relationship with politician Benny Gantz, who was competing Netanyahu for Prime Minister submit. Quickly after, he went to the US.