Netanyahu said to pause cabinet meeting on lockdown

Following the bombshell announcement that his confidant Ze’ev Elkin is quitting Likud to join the rival New Hope party, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called a one-hour break in the virtual cabinet meeting that is discussing imposing a third lockdown to curb virus infections, according to Hebrew reports.

Netanyahu tells ministers he wants to mull over the proposals on the closure.

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