Speaking to his Likud faction, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu avoids the easy dunk on the government over the police spyware scandal, instead aiming his opprobrium at Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s handling of the coronavirus crisis.
“He wrote a book called ‘how to beat a pandemic,’ now he should write one ‘how to lose to a pandemic,'” he yuks.
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on February 7, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
But whip Yariv Levin does address the Pegasus affair, calling on the opposition to rally around urging President Isaac Herzog to get involved and appoint a state commission into the allegations, which he says “every citizen should lose sleep over.”
“This is not a right or left issue. This is abuse, in a terrible way, of the immense power given to law enforcement. Their job is to protect democratic society, not to destroy it and create a situation in which we live under shadowy regimes,” he says.
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