Blue and White MK Yair Lapid is getting slammed for releasing a video in which he appears to question the Health Ministry guidelines ordering Israelis to remain indoors.
“Ask yourselves, in what kind of country does a non-elected government tell people they cannot leave the house,” he says in a video.
He later clarifies that he was criticizing the government’s lack of mandate and not the directives.
Blue and White MK Yair Lapid at the party’s post-election event in Tel Aviv on March 3, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
“The instructions to not leave the house are not the problem, that it is being given by an illegitimate government is a problem and then some,” he tweets at Channel 12’s Amit Segal.
Blue and White was on Monday given a mandate to form a government, but until it does, the Likud-led caretaker government is remaining as the de-facto power.
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