Netanyahu rebuked after excluding son Yair from military draft

Published October 25th, 2023 - 09:52 GMT
Yair Netanyahu
Yair Netanyahu, son of Israeli prime minister, blasted for staying in Miami amid war. (Instagram/@yair_netanyahu)

ALBAWABA - Days after the start of the Israeli-Gaza conflict, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called at least 360,000 reservists to come back to join the army amid rising tension with the Hamas group.

Meanwhile, Netanyahu's beloved son, 32, was excluded from the military draft and will stay in the United States. Yair Netanyahu has been in Miami, Florida since April.

Netanyahu's son Yair was blasted by many people for being exempted from coming back and being part of the latest Israeli aggression on Gaza, which killed over 6,055, and injured 15,143 others.

According to media sources, many of the 360,000 reservists were called to come back to Israel and leave everything behind even their honeymoons.

The backlash is believed to have started when one of the soldiers, who is a volunteer serving on Israel's northern front, was angry about the exemption of Yair Netanyahu from the military draft.

Yair Netanyahu. (Instagram)

The soldier told The Times: "Yair is enjoying his life at Miami Beach while I'm on the front lines." "It's us who are leaving our work, our families, our kids, to protect our families back home and the country, not the people who are responsible for this situation," he noted.

The soldier maintained: "Our brothers, our fathers, sons, are all going to the front line, but Yair is still not here. It does not help build trust in the leadership of the country."

Furthermore, many Israelis lashed out at Netanyahu calling him injustice for asking hundreds of thousands to come back to war while leaving his son out.

An X user posted: "A photograph has emerged of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son, Yair Netanyahu, taken at a luxury hotel in Miami. Just chillin'… while thousands of reserve soldiers are called to the front lines."

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