Likud

That was in the summer of 1996, just after the 46-year-old Netanyahu had won his first election as leader of the Likud party.

Boaz Bismuth, a parliamentarian from Netanyahu's Likud party, repeated his leader's positions: that there is no famine in Gaza, that Israel respects the laws of war and that unwarranted criticism of its conduct by countries including the UK, France and Canada incites antisemitic attacks on Jews, including murder.

I put this point to Boaz Bismuth, a leading member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party.

The prime minister's Likud party also issued a statement accusing the attorney general's office and the Shin Bet chief of "fabricating" the case and attempting to "terrorise Yonatan Urich in order to extract from him false testimony against the prime minister through blackmail".

That decision came after Likud officials criticised Sharvit's participation in the 2023 mass protests against the judicial overhaul.