AL-QUDS (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired on Sunday his judiciary affairs and education ministers, days after the parliament called for early elections.
A regime official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed to Xinhua that minister of judiciary affairs Ayelet Shaked and Education Minister Naftali Bennett, two pro-settler former allies of Netanyahu, were dismissed.
The move was widely reported in the regime’s media but no official statement was issued by the Prime Minister’s Office and no explanations were made.
Bennett and Shaked issued a joint statement, saying they "thank the Israeli public for the rare privilege we have had to serve as education and justice ministers.”
Last Wednesday, the regime’s parliament, or the Knesset, voted to hold early elections, less than two months after the previous elections. The move was promoted by Netanyahu’s Likud party after he failed to form a coalition.
Shaked and Bennett, two hawkish and popular politicians, formed a new party before April’s elections but failed to pass the electoral threshold. However, they remained in their offices in the interim cabinet.
They did not say whether they will run also in the upcoming September’s elections.