Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, insinuated without evidence in an interview aired Monday that left-wing politician Yair Golan had advance notice of the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, onslaught, drawing a furious response from the latter’s party. Golan said he would sue her.
Golan, a former deputy IDF chief of staff, drove on October 7 to where the Nova music festival massacre was being perpetrated and rescued people, later earning praise for his actions.
But Sara Netanyahu, in an interview with the staunchly pro-government Channel 14, suggested that his prompt response to the massacre had meant he had advance warning of it.
“When you’re a military man of such high rank, claiming that you fought on October 7, already early in the morning you were there, already dressed and ready at a very, very early hour when others didn’t know, such as the prime minister,” she says directly after talking about Golan, adding sarcastically: “Who is the prime minister anyway to know that a war is breaking out? Why let him know?”
In fact, Golan has said multiple times that he headed south around 8 a.m., 1.5 hours after the attack began.
