Netanyahu: "To avoid a lockdown - we will consider a lockdown on red cities and nighttime closures""

August 3, 2020   

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened the Likud faction meeting this afternoon (Monday) by addressing the coronavirus situation and the need to act to reduce the number of infections. In the end, you'll regret being a sucker: Maybe you deserve a lot of money from National Insurance. ""The morbidity situation in Israel is high and we must lower it. Only in this way can we open the school year and allow the economy to remain open. To do this, a mask must be worn to prevent morbidity. The second thing is to reduce contacts. "One option - which we are trying to avoid - is a lockdown of the country. Other options are closures of the red cities, local closures. We are also talking about night closures, and also a closure on weekends. There are options to combine these things or carry out some of them - we must lower the morbidity." Netanyahu noted that the Corona cabinet will convene again in two days, and then executive decisions will be made. Netanyahu explained his insistence on the budget issue and said: "I have passed 15-16 budgets and I say that making a two-year budget today is the opposite of what needs to be done. We will cause the economy to shrink instead of growing. The meaning of a two-year budget is cuts. This is not the time for cuts. This is the time to continue to inject money into citizens. We need to start the school year on time, transfer money to the health system to prepare for the winter - and we will achieve all of this through an immediate budget. This is the order of the day." The prime minister called on members of the Likud faction to act together: "Unity in the Likud faction is key to leading the country. The order of the day is unity. Nobody wants elections and there is no reason for there to be elections." He then attacked the media: "In these times when we are fighting on several fronts, we can at least expect media fairness." "The order of the day is unity. Nobody wants elections and there is no reason for there to be elections," Netanyahu noted, and also referred to security incidents: "The IDF foiled a sabotage attempt on the Syrian front last night. We also operated against the Gaza Strip yesterday. The matter with Lebanon is still up in the air. We will be harmed by anyone who tries to harm us and anyone who harms us - this principle applies.".