Netanyahu Has Hijacked ‘Israeli’ Coronavirus Response - Haaretz

By Staff, Agencies

Management of the biggest public health crisis in the history of the ‘Israeli’ entity is being taken out of health officials’ hands by Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Haaretz cited health officials familiar with the situation as saying.

What began a few weeks ago as questions by health care professionals has become criticism that bubbles under the surface and is threatening to burst into the open, exposing a flawed decision-making process that is having an unprecedented impact on the Zionist settlers’ daily lives.

The public may believe that the coronavirus crisis is being managed through professional deliberations at which a variety of opinions are voiced, but that isn’t the case, the sources said. In reality, both senior Health Ministry officials and the ministry’s task force on epidemics have been excluded from the discussions.

The coronavirus crisis is being run by Netanyahu and a few officials who support his views. Health Minister Yaakov Litzman is out of the picture, the sources said.

However, no one on Netanyahu’s decision-making team has training or experience in handling infectious diseases and epidemics.

As of Monday, the total number of individuals infected with the Coronavirus in the ‘Israeli’-occupied territories stood at 1238, with 24 of them in critical condition.