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Access to Asi River turned into left-right battleground in Israel

A tweet by Yair Netanyahu turned a battle over accessing the Asi River into a political war between right and left, Ashkenazi and Mizrahi.
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On July 27, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair released an inflammatory tweet attacking the country’s kibbutzim: “To those damn communists, who stole the country’s land at the expense of the development towns: Release the Asi River to the people of Beit Shean, before you start preaching!”

As usual, his tweet set off a media storm. Yair Netanyahu was angry that the kibbutz movement has been playing an active role in organizing the demonstrations against his father outside the prime minister’s official residence on Balfour Street. These demonstrations calling for Netanyahu’s resignation were already gathering momentum and receiving extensive media coverage.

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