This is CBS. I on the World. I'm John Batchel.

To Jonathan Shanzer, Senior Vice President for Research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies,

the day after the American election, we look at the Israeli cabinet for politics of Israel during wartime. The surprise to me was that yesterday,

I believe, Israeli time, Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, fired was the way it was put to me,

suggested leaving, exited his defense minister in wartime.

Odd, but I'd heard that this was a possibility for some weeks, and then it went away,

and it came back suddenly on Election Day.

Jonathan, a very good evening to you.

Is it significant that it happened yesterday?

Is it significant that soon after we learned that President Trump, who was a very strong supporter of Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu, was reelected president of the United States?

Are these random events or are the dots connected? Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. Yeah, it's a good question. I mean, I think the first thing that we need to understand is that this was not a surprise.

If you actually look back to March of 2023, you will see that these two men did not see eye to eye.

In fact, when Gallant came out and issued a statement that he was opposed to Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul proposal,

a controversial proposal. We saw a massive outpouring of Israelis into the streets of Israel.

Netanyahu walked back his firing of Gallant, that he had proposed that had triggered this massive protest. And the two had

this uneasy relationship that existed to this day. The fact that he was not fired allowed him to be

the defense minister. But we never saw trust between these two men. And in fact, that was exactly what Netanyahu

suggested yesterday with his statement that the two were going to part ways. I do think that there

may have been some timing here that we should look at. I think that the Israelis were betting on a

Trump victory. Gallant has been very close to Lloyd Austin.

He has been very close to the Biden administration.

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