Netanyahu: '136 candidates were screened in 3.5 hours, that's an average of 2 minutes per candidate' • Watch

December 7, 2020   

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the situation with the coronavirus pandemic and the appointment of 61 judges last night at the start of the Likud faction meeting in the Knesset on Monday afternoon. What is a “shared car price list”? How will the prices be displayed in the price list? All the details Chat or phone: Why don't 'Maccabi' members have to run to the emergency room for everything?  ""The vaccines are on the way. We are working on it day and night. We are doing it in the most professional and best way for the citizens of Israel. Until the vaccines arrive, we need to strictly follow the rules and make the right decisions," said the Prime Minister. He added: "If we do not act correctly, precisely when we see the end, people may get sick and die when it can be prevented. The only way to prevent this is to prevent gatherings and unnecessary contact as much as possible." According to him, "the morbidity is on the rise and we do not want to wait for another rise that will be difficult to stop. That is why we want to convene the Corona Cabinet today and make correct, firm, non-populist decisions that limit the restrictions both in scope and time period. "This requires responsibility and we discovered this in the first wave and we succeeded in the second wave as well, when we reduced the morbidity and mortality to the bottom of European countries. This obliges us now, in the third wave, and I hope that our partners will do the same." Netanyahu later attacked the members of the judicial selection committee: "I cannot help but refer to what happened yesterday. Every time the political echelon wants to appoint someone, the legal system demands that we hold dozens of hearings, protocols, it seems that we acted with discretion, in endless hearings. But yesterday, in the judicial selection committee, 136 candidates were reviewed in 3.5 hours, an average time of 2 minutes per candidate. ""I'm not talking about this or that appointment, I'm not getting into it at all. There may be many worthy candidates. I'm talking about the process, the method. This joins a long line of deficiencies that have been exposed in the law enforcement system. I think that most of the public understands today that serious reforms need to be made in this system, it can't continue like this." He emphasized: "Amir Ohana as Minister of Justice tried to fix this, unlike his predecessors, he acted very firmly, but we need a majority. Today we don't have the majority needed for this, but I hope we will soon." The Minister of Transportation and a member of the Judicial Selection Committee who boycotted the discussion yesterday, Miri Regev, also attacked the committee's conduct, as well as MK Ayelet Shaked from her right: "She is strong on Twitter and in her speeches, she has not led any reform in the judicial system.".