{"id":577461,"date":"2026-08-07T10:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/577461\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:38:08","slug":"report-defense-minister-left-security-cabinet-meeting-for-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/577461\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Defense Minister left Security Cabinet meeting for wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-b6a56682=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Defense Minister Israel Katz left Thursday&#8217;s Diplomatic-Security Cabinet meeting before it concluded to attend the wedding of the son of Kiryat Ata Mayor Yaakov Peretz, held in Rishon Lezion..<\/p>\n<p data-v-b6a56682=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reportedly unaware that Katz had left the meeting and at one point asked those present, &#8220;Where is the Defense Minister?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-b6a56682=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Peretz, a longtime Likud member who has served as mayor of Kiryat Ata for nearly three decades, heads a city with one of the party&#8217;s larger local branches, numbering about 1,500 registered members. The wedding took place as Likud prepares for its upcoming primaries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-b6a56682=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Katz was not the only senior Likud official in attendance: Welfare Minister Haim Katz, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant also attended the event.<\/p>\n<p data-v-b6a56682=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Katz&#8217;s departure came during a Security Cabinet meeting held at the end of a week marked by significant developments on several fronts involving the IDF.<\/p>\n<p data-v-b6a56682=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Responding to the report, Katz&#8217;s office said: &#8220;Defense Minister Israel Katz held a series of security discussions for nearly 10 hours yesterday at the Defense Ministry and the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office, and does not intend to comment on the security forums in which he participates.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defense Minister Israel Katz left Thursday&#8217;s Diplomatic-Security Cabinet meeting before it concluded to attend the wedding of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,85,46,2723,261101,43],"class_list":["post-577461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-katz","tag-kiryat-ata","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}