Opposition leader Yair Lapid says Israel needs not only a coronavirus czar but an economy czar as well.
“We are in the midst of the greatest economic crisis in three decades. There has not been such a managerial failure in the history of the country,” Lapid, head of Yesh Atid-Telem, says at the start of the weekly faction meeting.
“A government of 36 ministers and 16 deputy ministers won’t handle the economic crisis, it’s only making it worse,” he says.
MK Yair Lapid speaks at the Maariv newspaper conference in Herzliya, on February 26, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Lapid says “Israel’s business closure rate is the highest in the world. This isn’t talk, it’s data. Hard numbers. Businesses are collapsing. Event halls, culture, restaurants, shops.”
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