MK Gilad Kariv is seen on video getting in a shouting match with a police officer on the sidelines of the hostage rally in central Jerusalem, with the two accusing each other of being embarrassments.
According to Ynet, the altercation began after Kariv, from the Democrats, accused the cop of violently arresting a protester. A video shows the two arguing at a breakaway protest outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private home, where many protesters headed after the main rally outside his official residence down the street ended.
“Don’t yell at me,” the cop says, to which Kariv responds, “I’ll yell at you,” prompting the officer to say then he will yell back.
The two then accuse each other of “threatening.”
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“Shame on you, you are an embarrassment to your uniform,” Kariv says as the officer begins to walk away, to which the officer shoots back “you are an embarrassment to the Knesset,” telling the lawmaker that he needs to work on his decorum as the two continue shouting and pointing fingers at each other.
Following the confrontation, National Security Minister Itamar Ben GVir says he will ask Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana to censure Kariv, declaring that “the police are not a punching bag for frustrated politicians.”
Moments earlier, at the main protest, Kariv told The Times of Israel that a large sustained protest movement with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators could push Netanyahu to end the war.
“Without hundreds of thousands of Israelis protesting, this war — like the First Lebanon War — will last 18 years,” he said, adding that the demonstrations should be nonviolent, while still “paralyzing the country.
“The Israeli public needs to take to the streets because Netanyahu won’t do the right thing, Netanyahu is not driven by morality and conscience. Netanyahu is a narcissist and a borderline psychopath,” he asserted. “The only thing that will move Netanyahu is one million Israelis in the streets and American pressure.”
Standing alongside Kariv, fellow Democrats MK Na’ama Lazimi branded Netanyahu a “complete sociopath,” pointing to Netanyahu’s claim earlier this year that he sleeps with a clean conscience, even after Hamas’s October 7 onslaught.
“You can’t expect him to act rationally, out of an understanding of the sanctity of life and what his role and responsibility is,” Lazimi lamented.
But she said he could be moved by public sentiment.
“When there are demonstrations… they stress him out and make him tremble,” Lazimi claimed.
“Netanyahu cares about his seat, he about his political survival, he cares about his trial. When we are here, he trembles. We need to come out en masse to save our brothers and ourselves,” she added.