Former IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz claimed during a left-wing demonstration that the existential threat to the State of Israel comes from certain ministers in the government and not from the terrorist organizations.
"The State of Israel is fighting its war against the existential, internal threat to the Zionist enterprise," Halutz said at a demonstration in Caesarea this past Saturday night.
"It is not Hamas, not Hezbollah, not the Houthis, not Iran, but rather [Itamar] Ben Gvir, [Bezalel] Smotrich and Yariv Levin who are the threat to a strong Israel."
Halutz has long been critical of the government and has taken part in numerous anti-government protests. In late September, the former Chief of Staff joined protesters in blocking a road during a demonstration. Police forcibly removed him.
In March, Halutz criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against the background of the war in Gaza.
"He is responsible. I don't know a country in the world where a Prime Minister, after something like this, would not climb the tallest tower and jump off of it. There is no such thing," the former Chief of Staff said in an interview with Channel 13 News.
He went on to claim that Netanyahu refuses to recognize the October 7 massacre. "In Netanyahu's calendar there is no seventh of October. This man doesn't fight, we are going from bad to worse under his leadership."
Dan Halutz is also remembered for the fact that in 2006, while chief of staff of the Israeli army, he left a cabinet meeting to call his bank and sell an NIS 120,000 investment portfolio, this a few hours after two IDF soldiers were abducted by Hezbollah on the northern border. Several hours after the abduction, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared war on Hezbollah and Israeli warplanes began bombing targets deep inside Lebanon. But, to quote Haaretz newspaper, "as the country's political and military echelons urgently met to discuss the possible declaration of war, Halutz went at 12.00 P.M. on July 12 to sell an investment portfolio."