Blue and White leader and former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz was unable to remember the surname of the slain 19-year-old soldier who was killed on Thursday, Channel 13 reported.
Watch: In major gaffe echoing @HillaryClinton, @gantzbe forgets the name of the murdered soldier who Israelis talked about all day. https://t.co/cc6jUnjwQ6
— Gil Hoffman (@Gil_Hoffman) August 8, 2019
“We are here, not far from the scene where this morning Dvir…” Gantz begins and realizes he forgot the surname. “Dvir Sorek,” a man from outside the camera shot says to him and he apologizes.
This is not the first time that Gantz has made mistakes on live television.
In March, he gave an interview to Channel 12 in which he kept repeating the name of the reporter he was speaking with, Yonit Levi. The interview was so odd, the Israeli web made it go viral; Noy Eilish even created a mix in which Gantz stutters the name Yonit to a Greek melody.
ובכן, עקב דרישת הקהל (ואיך אפשר שלא עם מתנה כזאת):קבלו את: אם.סי גנץ בלהיט "יו יו יונית!"* המלא בפייס pic.twitter.com/ILyL1cqDAl
— noy_eilish (@noyalooshemusic) March 26, 2019
Earlier this month, he responded to a question asking whether he might join a unity government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by saying: “We will do what is best for Israel.” He later returned to the reporter to clarify that his intention is to replace Netanyahu as prime minister and not to form an alliance with him.
Noy Eilish is fairly famous in Israel for creating mash-up songs that make fun of such well known people as Netanyahu and the late Muammar Gaddafi. In a 2014 mash-up, Eilish shows Netanyahu and Isaac Herzog "singing" to one another. "Israel is stuck with you and you're stuck without answers to the people," Herzog "sings" to the prime minister, who responds by "singing" back: "for you people, if you don't evacuate settlements nothing else matters."