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Outgoing prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks to the new prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the night of his inauguration at the Kneset. March 31, 2009. (Yossi Zamir/FLASH90)
Last week during a brawl in the Knesset Arrangements Committee, Likud MK David Amsalem howled at the committee chair, Yesh Atid MK Boaz Toporovsky, that he needed “hospitalization” – Hebrew code for being committed to a psychiatric hospital. In 2019, the Likud campaign accused Benny Gantz of “paranoia” during elections. And, in the most egregious current example of the weaponization of psychiatry in Israeli politics, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has of late repeatedly insisted that the Netanyahus