The Democrats leader Yair Golan on Tuesday sent a warning letter ahead of legal action to Sara Netanyahu, accusing the prime minister’s wife of libel after she insinuated without evidence that the left-wing politician had advance notice of the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, onslaught.
Golan warned that should she fail to retract her comments, which “amount to the most serious libel,” apologize, and make a substantial donation to the Nova music festival’s survivors, he will file a suit for NIS 2.5 million ($825,000) in damages.
Golan, a former deputy IDF chief of staff, drove to the site of the Nova massacre on the morning of October 7 and rescued multiple people, later earning praise for his actions.
He has said multiple times that he headed south around 8 a.m., an hour and a half after the attack began.
Sara Netanyahu, in an interview with the pro-government Channel 14 aired Monday, pushed a baseless conspiracy theory that Golan’s prompt response to the massacre showed he had advance warning of it.
