The Media Line Staff 02/05/2021
The Israeli cabinet voted early Friday morning to extend its coronavirus lockdown to Sunday morning at 7 am amid recriminations between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz. The defense minister opposed the initial proposal to extend the lock, which was recommended by Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and Netanyahu. Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit struck down that proposal as a violation of proper procedure as defined by Basic Law: The Government, which was amended by Netanyahu and Gantz in their coalition agreement. “Gantz wants as bad of a morbidity rate as possible for the sake of the elections. You’re sentencing many Israelis to a harsh death,” Netanyahu said of his coalition partner, who rejected the accusation. Well after midnight, a compromise agreement was hammered out and passed unanimously. According to the decision, Israel will on Sunday lift restrictions on movement; rest
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Feb. 3, 2021
The message emanating every morning from Health Minister Yuli Edelstein’s bureau is to maintain the battle spirit and vaccination momentum. Tuesday morning it was: “We’ll vanquish the virus because we’re waging the best vaccination campaign the world.”
The minister has been meticulously issuing similarly spirited messages every morning for the last 42 days, ever since the national vaccination campaign began with a storm. The data attached to these messages is less consistent. It points to the fact that the campaign, labeled “lending a shoulder,” is losing momentum and has apparently entered a new phase, a more complex and challenging one.