Opposition leader Yair Lapid pans the government for apparently being unable to stand by its previous decision to enact closures in cities with high virus numbers.
“The government isn’t only detached anymore, it’s dangerous,” he tweets. “Teams of specialists, doctors, economists, public policy experts and local authority officials sit down and build a plan of action, balancing health and the economy, and then the politicians state playing politics and its all turned over in an instant.”
Opposition chief Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid party, listens to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, Jerusalem, August 12, 2020 (Screen grab/ Knesset TV)
Lapid adds: “If you’re so afraid of each other it leads to paralysis and twisted decisions, go home.
“We can weather tough decisions, we’re not idiots, we know there’s a price to fighting coronavirus, but we’re not prepared to pay the price of pathetic political dealings leading this government.”
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