Right-wing lawmakers rap Yesh Atid MK for saying public doesn’t need to obey if lockdown renewed

Right-wing lawmakers criticize Yesh Atid MK Idan Roll for saying that if the government reimposes a nationwide lockdown to contain the rising number of coronavirus infections, citizens don’t need to obey.

In a tweet earlier, Roll slammed the government’s handling of the pandemic and said it lacks the “legitimacy” to impose another lockdown.

Coalition whip Miki Zohar, a member of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud party, accuses Roll of calling for a “rebellion.”

“The cat is out of the bag. ‘Yesh Atid’ people and Yair Lapid will do everything, including calling for a rebellion that will turn Israel into an anarchy, only to harm the continued rule of the right, Likud and Prime Minister Netanyahu,” Zohar tweets.

MK Naftali Bennett, head of the national-religious Yamina party, calls on Lapid to renounce Roll’s comments.

“This is a call for anarchy and this how a state and its institutions are dismantled,” Bennett writes on Twitter. “I have very harsh criticism of the government’s failures… but this is an elected government.”