Commenting on the 69th Squadron’s decision during a Sunday evening interview with Channel 12, former Israel Air Force chief Eitan Ben Eliyahu lamented, “There’s never been anything like this.”

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-chief-warns-netanyahu-that-reservist-protest-refusals-could-spread-in-military/

Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu on Sunday compared curtailing Palestinians’ rights to freedom of movement in the West Bank — in order to boost safety for Israeli settlers — to putting dangerous criminals behind bars.

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/minister-compares-palestinians-to-prisoners-in-justifying-curbs-on-their-movement/

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office issued a statement saying Mr Eliyahu, from a far-right party in the coalition government, had been suspended from cabinet meetings "until further notice".

Source: https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/go-to-ireland-or-desert-comments-do-not-represent-israels-policy-ambassador-1548771.html

Rabbi Eliyahu added: “How is it acceptable to take a person with a head injury from intensive care at the hospital, and subject him to a Shin Bet investigation under torture?

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/news/left-vs-right/rabbi-shmuel-eliyahu-compares-the-idf-in-samaria-to-the-pre-1948-british-army/2023/08/20/

Steinberg studied at Horev High School and Ma’ale Eliyahu Yeshiva in Tel Aviv.

Source: https://www.jta.org/2023/10/11/obituaries/faces-of-israels-fallen-soldiers-a-peace-activist-a-family-of-5-and-more

When it was pointed out to the minister that there are some 240 hostages currently held in the Gaza Strip, Eliyahu doubled down.

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-minister-says-nuking-gaza-an-option-pm-suspends-him-from-cabinet-meetings/