Head of the Opposition and Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign on Monday owing to what he described as the government’s failure to successfully combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Lapid said that Netanyahu’s resignation would not necessitate elections and that most of the opposition parties would join a national unity government to tackle the public health crisis if the prime minister were to leave office. “Benjamin Netanyahu needs to resign. He’s failed. He’s lost control. The corona crisis isn’t being managed, not the economic part and not the health part. He isn’t a manager, he’s a PR man. The failure is wall to wall and it’s all his,” said Lapid during the Yesh Atid faction meeting on Monday afternoon. He said that by January, Israel would be facing a winter spike in coronavirus cases while Netanyahu would at the same time be required to appear on a regular basis in court for his criminal trial on corruption charges. “If Netanyahu resigns then in 48 hours we will create a real emergency government,” continued Lapid. “Israel’s citizens are out of time. We’re in a state of emergency. I call upon all the factions in the Knesset to show him the door. The country is more important than any of us. Netanyahu needs to resign. Today.”Yisrael Beytenu leader MK Avigdor Liberman also took the opportunity during his party’s faction meeting to attack Netanyahu, likewise accusing him of mismanaging the coronavirus crisis and called on him to transfer all authority over the situation to the defense minister. “The current crisis is a management crisis, not a coronavirus crisis and not an economic crisis. This is a system failure, it is the inability to decide and it is a total loss of control,” declared Liberman. The Yisrael Beytenu leader went on to list a series of the government’s delays and reversals in its management of the crisis, including the ongoing failure to appoint a coronavirus czar, the lack of clarity regarding the coming school year, and failures to adequately address economic concerns. “I therefore call on the alternate prime minister and defense minister Benny Gantz to demand that the prime minister pass all authorities and the entire battle against the coronavirus to the IDF and the defense ministry,” Liberman concluded.
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