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Story summary
- Yinon Magal called Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot a “monkey” on a live Channel 14 broadcast.
- Magal added Eisenkot was a Mizrahi Moroccan front controlled by “elitist Ashkenazim”.
- The Yashar party condemned the remark as racist and insulting to Mizrahi Jews.
- Former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot called the comment low-level discourse and blamed “the man behind Yinon Magal.”
- Magal later posted a video saying his “monkey” comment was a criminal-underworld expression, not literal.