Tel Aviv mayor warns Israel heading toward a fascist theocracy Huldai says city will reject efforts to let homophobe MK dictate education policy despite right’s election win; ‘In all the fascist states, the leaders were chosen by the people’ Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai on Friday warned that Israel was heading toward becoming a fascist theocracy, as the incoming government moves to put extremists in charge of key education programs and neuter the Supreme Court.“The majority cannot [be allowed to] impose its views on the minority.” Huldai spoke as he and several other mayors vowed to push back after Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to give Avi Maoz, a far-right Knesset member known for strident anti-LGBT and misogynistic views, authority over large swathes of content at Israeli schools.Netanyahu this week agreed to give Maoz, the sole lawmaker in the fringe Noam party, an annual budget of at least NIS 100 million ($29 million), as well as over a dozen staffers, as a deputy minister at the helm of a new “national Jewish identity” government agency within the Prime Minister’s Office.Meanwhile, Channel 12 quoted unnamed officials in Netanyahu’s Likud party as saying that giving Maoz the portfolio had been a serious blunder during coalition negotiations.It crosses a red line.” He added that when Likud was in the opposition “we never incited against the government.” Netanyahu vowed to protect citizens’ rights and to “lead the Israeli government according to the national and democratic values that have guided me my entire life.” He urged Lapid and the expected opposition “to act in a responsible manner."