Bennett urges Defense Ministry be given lead in handling virus crisis

1 April 2020, 4:38 pm

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Defense Minister Naftali Bennett calls for his ministry to be given the lead in the national fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

“We need to move logistical command of this crisis from the Health Ministry to the Defense Ministry — yesterday,” Bennett says at a press briefing. “The Health Ministry is a professional department but they’re not experts in crises… To handle a testing system of tens of thousands of tests a day is not something they will be able to so.

“You need advanced information and transportation systems. We won’t be able to bring the economy back on track if the lead does not return to the Defense Ministry.”