Lapid calls for Netanyahu to resign over ‘failed’ virus response

20 July 2020, 2:47 pm

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Opposition leader Yair Lapid calls for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s resignation over the government’s virus response.

“Benjamin Netanyahu must resign. He failed. He lost control. The coronavirus crisis is not being managed. Not on the economic side, not on the health side… This is a total failure. It’s all in his name.

“In January, at the peak of the winter wave of the coronavirus, he’ll sit on the defendant’s bench three times a week,” adds Lapid, referring to Netanyahu’s trial on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.

“Netanyahu has done some good things in the past, but that’s over. We can’t go on like this. He has to go,” adds Lapid.