Coalition Chairman MK Miki Zohar spoke today (Tuesday) with Golan Yokfaz and Anat Davidov on their program on 103FM, sharply attacked the chairman of the Corona Committee, MK Yifat Shasha-Bitton, and blamed her for the high death toll from the Corona crisis “If we had ousted Shasha-Biton, we would not have been in that number of dead,” he claimed.
“Shasha-Bitton did things that will be recorded in the pages of Israel’s history. She was probably the main culprit in 9,000 infections a day. I have one regret in my career – that I was not able to remove her from her position.” He made the remarks in response to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial statement yesterday, which implicitly blamed Shasha-Biton for the corona’s failures.
“I very much identify with the prime minister,” Zohar said. “There is a built-in hostility against the prime minister, he has become the sole target of the media, so he can not continue to serve as prime minister. This is deeply frustrating. Therefore, when the prime minister sometimes belittles what is said about him in the media who excels at portraying only evil, A little irritated. “
He added: “The media is hostile and not objective. Why ask the prime minister about the death toll and not the number of lives Netanyahu saved? Everyone is mobilized to harm the chances of building a right-wing government. There will be no disaster if the strange trial against Netanyahu opens in a month. Open it now so that the media can campaign against it and against the Likud? I trust both criminal law and civil law, but when political issues penetrate into the judiciary, where decisions almost regularly fall on the left side of the map. “And we never had the majority required to promote it.”
On the Likud’s political rivals on the right and left, he said: “I sometimes find it hard to believe how lucky the left is. Bennett and Saar are doing everything to prevent the formation of a government. I am afraid a left-wing government will be formed here with their support.”
New hope delivered in response: “Miki Zohar is Netanyahu’s emissary who is trying to abdicate responsibility. The Corona Committee – headed by MK Shasha Bitton – carried out an excellent parliamentary oversight that was expropriated by Netanyahu seven months ago. “Netanyahu is under pressure ahead of the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into the serious failures that were discovered in his management of the corona crisis and is trying to escape his personal responsibility for the failures.”