Yamina leader Naftali Bennett is throwing shade at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for claiming that Europe is looking to Israel as a success story.
“The second lockdown is not a ‘success,’ but the result of the government’s terrible management failure,” he says in a video he tweets out. “The lockdown has caused enormous suffering and the loss of livelihood for millions of Israelis.”
Naftali Bennett speaking at the Knesset on October 15, 2020. (Gideon Sharon/Knesset)
“The first lockdown in April bought us time. I presented a plan to prevent a second wave — but you didn’t muster the forces, didn’t expand the tests and contact tracing,” adds Bennett, who has become a formidable challenger to Netanyahu.
According to a statement from Netanyahu’s office, at the start of the coronavirus cabinet meeting, he said, “There is no doubt that as of now there is a success here which they are already beginning to talk about and look at in many countries, mainly in Europe, where the morbidity in several countries has already passed us.”
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