# Controversial New Knesset Members: From Omri Ronen to Ahmad Tibi - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120426793140466029 - Source account: [@netanyahu](https://x.com/netanyahu) - Source language: Hebrew - Target language: English - Duration: 3:51 - Published: 2026-11-11 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/he/%D7%97%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99-%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%AA-%D7%97%D7%93%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%91%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%AA-%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99-%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%9F-%D7%A2%D7%93-%D7%90%D7%97%D7%9E%D7%93-%D7%98%D7%99%D7%91%D7%99.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi) Statements against the IDF and ties to, uh, entities linked to terrorist organizations. [0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=5) A new Knesset, but many of the faces entering it carry controversial public baggage. [0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=11) Some may even become players in the next government. [0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=15) More details in Yossi Assouline’s report. [0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=17) Ahmad Tibi. New faces in the Knesset. We looked into some of the prominent names whose activities are controversial, at best. [0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=27) And what do they have to offer as new lawmakers? [0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=29) You won't tell me to refuse. You're a lawmaker. [0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=32) Omri Ronen, one of the leaders of Brothers in Arms, and a leading figure in the reserve- duty refusal and protests against the Haredi public over the conscription law, has said in the media more than once that everything must be done to oppose the judicial overhaul, [0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=44) including refusing reserve duty. Statements that led Defense Minister Katz to dismiss him from reserve service. [0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=49) I told my team, Team Omri, that if the legislation pushing us toward dictatorship passes its second and third readings, I will suspend my volunteer reserve service. [1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=61) Noam Tibon, one of the leaders of the protest against the government, both over the judicial reform and in the hostages' protest, He signed a letter from former senior security officials, expressing support for reservists who announced they were suspending their volunteer service in response to the advancement of the judicial legislation. [1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=76) He spoke at left-wing protests and attacked the failures of October 7. [1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=80) Our heroic pilots, who have long since moved on. [1:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=85) We won't fly to Iran for a dictatorship. [1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=90) They are the real heroes. Democracy. Attorney Gaby Lasky, a radical left-wing activist, supported the anti-Israel film “Incitement,” which accused IDF soldiers of committing war crimes. [1:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=105) An activist with the “Surrounding Detainees” organization, which supported those detained at Kaplan protests, she previously supported payments to terrorists' families and distributed Palestinian terrorists in court, including terrorist Ahed Tamimi, who attacked soldiers. [1:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=119) Sorry, what are you doing? Don't push her. Don't touch her. [2:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=122) Don't touch her. Don't touch her. Don't touch her. [2:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=125) She's the lawyer for the detainees. Repeal the laws of the regime coup. [2:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=130) Yaya Fink led a crowdfunding campaign for residents of the hostile Arab village of Huwara, and, according to a Channel 14 exposé The appeal to a secret fund in the Histadrut to finance associations run by party activists. [2:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=141) A decision must be made here, a principled, ideological decision. [2:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=145) Are Arabs only good enough to be doctors or build houses, or are they also good enough to take part in decision-making in Israel? [2:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=154) Yousef Jabareen refuses to call Hamas a terrorist organization and called Israel an occupying power. [2:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=160) For the national and civil rights, a genuine political horizon for our Palestinian people. [2:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=165) Yair Golan made a blood libel claim, saying the State of Israel kills babies in Gaza as a hobby. [2:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=171) A sane country doesn't wage war against civilians, or kill babies as a hobby. [2:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=176) He signed the process speech, declared he would shut down Channel 14 and Ali's camp, and wouldn't transfer money to settlements. [3:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=183) So, good luck to us all. Dr. Bassem Ghattas wrote an eulogy after Hezbollah Secretary-General Nasrallah's death and portrayed him as a resistance fighter. [3:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=194) Many of the new Arab MKs have ties to terror activists and have made statements supporting terrorist organizations, from Hezbollah to Hamas, And identification with murderous terrorists. [3:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=205) Yousef Jabareen. [3:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=210) And, of course, at their head, Ahmad Tibi, Yasser Arafat’s former adviser. [3:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=215) On the date of the martyrdom and the struggle The martyr’s struggle The standing of the Majd. [3:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/p6V5JSssBFWZ/en/controversial-new-knesset-members-from-omri-ronen-to-ahmad-tibi?t=223) These are just a few of the Knesset members who might give Gadi Eisenkot the chance to form a new government.