Prime Minister Netanyahu defends the three-week lockdown set to take effect tomorrow.
“The lockdown is important, it’s necessary and in this lockdown we’ll stand together,” he says in a televised statement from his official residence.
Netanyahu says a new plan to address the economic fallout caused by the lockdown measures will be discussed later this evening.
He touts the government’s initial handling of the pandemic and says other countries besides Israel, which has one of the highest daily infection rates per capita in the world, are also reintroducing restricitons.
“We made every effort to balance the health considerations and economic needs,” he says.
The premier says due to current infection rates, “there may be no choice” but to tighten the lockdown and vows he won’t hesitate to do so if needed.
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