Idit Silman, head of the Arrangements Committee, leads a Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Coalition whip Idit Silman said Sunday that she has received phone calls and text messages with explicit threats to the lives of her and her family earlier in the day.
Silman, a member of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s Yamina party, said she reached out to the Knesset Guard and police. She has been the target of threats over the last month with some on the right accusing her and the Yamina party of betraying the right by forming a unity government to out Benjamin Netanyahu after 12 years of rule.
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