Democrats leader Yair Golan said that eliminating Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei at the outset of the recent war was a "mistake." In an interview with Yossi Yehoshua at Friday Culture in Rishon Lezion, he said he believes "unequivocally that eliminating the father Khamenei was a mistake. Not because he didn't deserve to die, but because it doesn't serve the interests of the State of Israel. Whenever there is an elderly, veteran leader, there is a certain advantage in that. He was already 86 years old."