Yair Lapid: “There was never a government here that had so many reasons to ask for forgiveness.”

The British government's decision to impose boycotts and sanctions on Israel is a serious mistake. It is a wrong and dangerous policy, at the wrong time and for the wrong reasons.

The [IDF] Chief of Staff [Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir] has raised ten red flags regarding the shortage of combat troops and the erosion of readiness within the IDF.

There was no excuse to delay or move them.

I call on the government to immediately instruct all relevant authorities to concentrate and deploy every resource necessary to re-examine every possible investigative direction, and to update both the family and the public on the steps…