Binyamin Netanyahu is losing support
The Israeli prime minister’s botched response to covid-19 is costing lives and public trust
WITH ISRAEL in indefinite nationwide lockdown against covid-19, Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, tried on October 5th to put a positive spin on the situation. “We were the first to go into lockdown” in the second wave, he said. This was therefore an achievement, rather than the result of the highest recorded daily infection rate in the world and one of its highest recorded death rates.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Sickly leadership”
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