Israel s leaders are out of ideas
Opinion: There is no logic to decisions made by ministers who would rather fall back on revert failed solutions than promote the coronavirus vaccinations and come up with creative ways of safely reopening schools
Nadav Eyal |
It should have come as no surprise that after lockdown there would have to be a tempered exit strategy, so why was one never prepared?
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An intra-ministerial committee was established and tasked with preparing strategy. It is safe to assume some ideas were developed and even presented to ministers.
But at the end of the day, the same indecision and chaos that was exhibited after previous lockdowns reappeared as the country emerged from its third closure and the government once again relied on little more than improvisation.
Citing intelligence sources,
The Jewish Chronicle on Wednesday reported that Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the nuclear scientist assassinated near Tehran in November, was killed by a one-ton gun smuggled into Iran in pieces by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. Fakhrizadeh, 59, was long suspected by the West of having masterminded a secret nuclear bomb program.
The 20-plus spy team, comprised of both Israeli and Iranian nationals, carried out the high-tech hit after eight months of painstaking surveillance, intelligence sources disclosed. The weapon, operated remotely by agents on the ground as they observed the target, was so heavy because it included a bomb that destroyed any evidence after the killing.
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An Israeli health worker waits for people to come get vaccinated at a largely empty Clalit Health Services vaccination station on February 7, 2021, in the northern city of Herzliya. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)
1. Israel’s got class: Classes are back in session Thursday for the first time in over a month, and as in previous rounds of reopening, relief to have kids back in school in many cases trumps fear of the raging pandemic.
“There’s no substitute for real meetings with the kids,” one parent tells Ynet. “There’s some worry over the spread of the disease which is still continuing, but the situation of kids stuck at home is no less worrying.”
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