Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene the entire cabinet again tomorrow to discuss tightening measures to fight the current rise in coronavirus cases, his office announces.
At today’s cabinet meeting, Netanyaha stressed: “We are in an emergency situation. We cannot approach Knesset legislation, with the steps that we are taking, as if everything was normal. It is not and it is on this basis that we want to advance both the means to make decisions and decision-making on a different scale and magnitude, in order to block the spread of the coronavirus. If we do not block the spread of the coronavirus we will have neither health nor an economy, many citizens in the State of Israel will lose their lives.
He added: “We must do what is necessary. Therefore, in the coming day, after the presentation that will be shown here, we will have an additional Cabinet meeting in order to make the necessary decisions, both practical ad legislative.”
— Raphael Ahren
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