Israeli opposition leader accuses goverment of playing ‘cheap politics’ over plane incident

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on Wednesday accused the government of playing “cheap politics” at the expense of Israel’s security following the scare involving a Flydubai passenger plane, Anadolu reports. Lapid rejected attempts to link the incident to a security briefing he received from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday evening. “Let me make this clear. Nothing even resembling this morning’s plane incident appeared in the security briefing with the prime minister last night. Nothing similar, nothing reminiscent of it, not even a hint,” he said on the US social media company X. Lapid accused government-aligned voices of trying to use the incident for political purposes. “All the spin the mouthpieces are doing now only proves what was already clear […]