In August 2021 Distel-Atbaryan shared a video on Twitter that falsely suggested United States president
Joe Biden fell asleep during a meeting with Israeli prime minister
Naftali Bennett, resulting in her tweet being flagged with a Twitter warning of "manipulated media". In May 2022 she claimed in an interview that "there is no such thing as
autism", and shared how she "treated" her autistic son by refusing him food and water until he talked. The comments caused a stir and led to criticism from autistic people and their families. During the
2023 Israeli anti-judicial reform protests, after reservists from the
69 "Hammers" Squadron boycotted a training operation to protest the proposed judicial changes, Distel-Atbaryan wrote on Twitter that "[p]ilots who condition the security of the citizens on the results of the elections are narcissistic. I'm not interested in what they did for the country", adding that they are "not patriots. Not the salt of the earth. Not Zionists. Not the best of our guys. Not wonderful people. Not the people of Israel." In March 2023 she claimed that the left relies on foreign funding for its political activities and claimed that funding from foreign nations and actors, including Germany and Iran, was being used to finance protests in Israel. Germany's ambassador to Israel,
Steffen Seibert, took issue with Distel-Atbaryan's decision to associate Germany with Iran, a country that openly threatens to annihilate Israel. After the
Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023, Distal-Atbaryan posted on-line: “Erase Gaza from the face of the earth. Let the Gazan monsters rush to the southern border and flee into Egypt, or die. And let them die badly. Gaza should be wiped off the map, and fire and brimstone on the heads of the Nazis in Judea and Samaria. Jewish wrath to shake the earth around the world. We need a cruel, vengeful IDF here. Anything less is immoral.” The social media platform formerly called Twitter removed her message. On 12 October significant public criticism arose regarding the performance of the Public Diplomacy ministry in carrying out its duties. Distal-Atbaryan announced her resignation from the government and her return to the Knesset. A few days later, the government decided to close the ministry and transfer its budget to the Western Negev settlements rehabilitation directorate. In June 2025 Distel Atbaryan insinuated that
Reform Jews were not real Jews. As chair of a Knesset sub-committee on Subcommittee for Jewish Thought in the Education System, Distel Atbaryan ordered
The Democrats MK
Gilad Kariv, an ordained Reform Rabbi, to be removed from the committee saying, “Remove the Reformist, [the] Jews here want to continue.” Prior to ordering Kariv removed, after Kariv discussed women undertaking religious traditions typically done by men, such as laying tefillin, Distel Atbaryan responded "“I don’t have the strength for these provocations... If you conduct a bar mitzvah for a dog, I will come and celebrate." ==References==