After Blue and White chief Defense Minister Benny Gantz demands, in the coronavirus cabinet meeting, some basic facts on Israel’s plans for receiving, storing and distributing the vaccines for the coronavirus, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells him it’s none of his business, in not so many words.
“There’s a professional panel dealing with the vaccines; we need to distance any policy actors away from it,” he’s quoted saying in leaks emanating from the meeting.
Earlier in the day, the IDF, which is under Gantz’s auspices, offered to help out with distributing the vaccine, citing the military’s logistical know-how.
Netanyahu and Likud Health Minister Yuli Edelstein have made several celebratory pronouncements regarding Israel’s procurement of vaccines, taking credit for making sure Israel is high on global recipient lists.
Blue and White politicians, meanwhile, have complained that they don’t even know how many doses Israel is getting or when they will get here, demanding Netanyahu and co. cough up the details.
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