Benny Begin, son of the Likud party’s iconic founder and former prime minister Menachem Begin, warned Sunday that the current Likud-led government is seeking a regime that is not democracy, and called for early elections to end the “destructive process.”

In a Hebrew-language post to his Facebook page, Begin panned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition for its decision of no confidence in Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, made earlier in the day, saying the move “testifies that this government does not want to govern, but to rule — to rule without limits and without wisdom, a new and dangerous regime, whose name is not yet known, but will not be democracy.”

The cabinet’s decision to move to fire Baharav-Miara came after last week it voted to dismiss the head of the Shin Bet security service Ronen Bar. Both moves have sparked public outcry and demonstrations and will both be contested in the High Court of Justice. Critics have also claimed that Netanyahu has a conflict........

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