Channel 12 reports that ministers from the Blue and White party are demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and health officials bring them up to date on Israel’s plans to receive and distribute coronavirus vaccines, ahead of a coronavirus cabinet meeting set to start at 4 p.m.
Members of the party have complained about the steering panel essentially stopping functioning with the coalition torn asunder by a budget battle that has set the stage for early elections.
The channel reports that Blue and White ministers want to know how many vaccines are supposed to arrive in Israel, at what pace and what the timeline for their distribution is, saying that they cannot make decisions on other matters without that info.
A published agenda for the meeting does not list vaccines as a topic of discussion. Instead they will look at mall openings and “other steps to contain the pandemic.”
Earlier in the day, Blue and White minister Izhar Shay told Army Radio it was “not okay” that Netanyahu had not convened the coronavirus cabinet for 10 days.
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