Bennett dunks on Netanyahu for calling lockdown a ‘success’

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.”

“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.”