Bayit Yehudi party leader Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday 9 Sheva addressed the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) Conference.

He explained “The expensive F-35s will not help in the face of 50 Hamas commandos digging their way to Netiv HaAsarah”. He spoke of the need to modernize thinking about defense, stressing that thinking in terms of weapons alone is not sufficient. Bennett used his experience in the business world to cite Kodak and Nokia as relevant examples, explaining those companies collapsed

because of “an attitude that became irrelevant”.

On the Iranian front, he was critical of the decision to lift economic sanctions on Tehran. He asked why in every conflict with Hizbullah and Hamas, “we bleed but the head of the snake has enjoyed immunity until today”.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)