In June 2023 he proposed a bill to divide the
Temple Mount, also known as the al-Aqsa mosque compound, between Jews and Muslims, generating criticism from Palestinian Prime Minister
Mohammed Shtayyeh. On July 7 2024, Halevi appeared in an interview on Kan 11 stating "In the orthopedic department of Al-Shifa Hospital, they found 150 terrorists and then killed them. At the same time, 300 terrorists were born in the maternity ward. 300!" After
Bert-Jan Ruissen invited Halevi to a
European Parliament panel on
Iran, 36
members of the European Parliament called for Halevi to be blocked from Parliament for his implying Palestinian babies would become terrorists, as well as his claim that “There is nothing called
Palestinian people, never was, and will never be.” Regarding the
Gaza War, Halevi wrote on
Facebook that “There are only two types of Palestinians: Palestinians who support Hamas's Nazi education and Palestinians who serve as human shields for them. We can and must bomb both.” In January 2025 he was one of eight members of the
Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to call on Defense Minister
Israel Katz to order the IDF to destroy all water, food and energy sources in the Gaza Strip in order to achieve the war aims. In February 2025, he introduced a bill, passed by the Knesset, providing for five years' imprisonment for any Israeli cooperating with the
International Criminal Court. In March 2025, Halevi suggested that Israel should occupy and cleanse Gaza, stating "We want to occupy the territory in order to cleanse it of the enemy; otherwise, he will kill your children and kidnap your grandchildren again." In May 2025, during a Knesset discussion on the
Gaza humanitarian crisis, when an Israeli doctor assumed that the Knesset supported suffering children in Gaza receiving "painkillers or minimal medical treatment", Halevi disagreed, saying: "I'm not sure you're speaking for us when you say we want to treat every child and every woman. I hope you don't stand behind that statement either. When fighting a group like this, the distinctions that exist in a normal world don't exist." When a statistician told the Knesset that he calculated from Israeli Defense Forces data that "we are already at a point where tens of thousands [in Gaza] have no food at all or have less than 300 calories a day", Halevi responded: "There is no hungry person in Gaza, not even a single child. It's a shame you are amplifying that lie – no one is lacking anything"; however as the discussion continued, the Israeli Defense Forces raised the possibility that there may be "pockets of hunger" in Gaza. ==References==