Einav Zangauker, the firebrand mother of released hostage Matan Zangauker, said over the weekend that she is considering entering politics and that her “life’s mission” is to remove the current government.

Zangauker, who emerged as a ceaseless advocate for the hostages’ release and prominent protest leader, told television host Ofira Asayag on her Channel 12 talk show that she is “entering politics and… will do the best she can for ordinary citizens.”

She said that over the past two years, she learned that “politics in the State of Israel is rotten to the core,” and that politicians “don’t act in the public interest.”

“Fixing the country can only be done by us — the citizens,” said Zangauker, who was a staunch Netanyahu supporter for years before emerging as one of his most potent critics following the October 7 attack.

Asked whether she is running for politics, Zangauker said she is “considering everything” but that she receives offers “all the time” from various political parties.

While she initially said that she was considering all parties, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud, on Saturday Zangauker wrote in a post on X that, “As someone who personally endured for two years the pain of that terrible failure, the most........

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