Anti-government demonstrators sparked outrage Monday among right-wing lawmakers and others when they used pita bread to spell out a protest message outside the Rehovot home of Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman amid the Passover festival, a time when observant Jews are forbidden from eating or owning leavened bread.

The demonstrators spelled out the words “One pita a day” with the pitas, a reference to the meager rations that hostages are reportedly receiving in Gaza.

Silman helped bring down the previous government, headed by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, when she quit and cited, in part, the issue of leavened goods, or hametz, being allowed in public spaces during the Passover holiday.

She later joined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, and was rewarded with a post of minister.

Silman slammed the demonstrators Monday, calling them “scum.”

“Passover. A street where most people are religious and traditional. These scum come to scatter pitas on the street,” she posted on X with a picture of the offending protest.

“It’s not for the sake of the hostages. It’s not for democracy. It’s not even for politics,” she said. “It’s just because they are disgusting types who have no........

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