Coalition chairman Miki Zohar spoke this morning (Tuesday) with Tal Shalev on 103FM’s “personal elections” broadcast in collaboration with Walla NEWS about the political situation and referred to the possibility that the Netanyahu bloc and the ultra-Orthodox will not reach 61 seats: “If that happens, we will go “Israel from the opposition,” he said.
Zohar added: “We know how to be democrats, respect the voter’s decision. I think Israel will not move forward, even go backwards, and we will do everything to return to the helm of power.”
Watch the interview (starting at 5:30):
Zohar later referred to the corona crisis and said: “Overall, Israel’s conduct in the corona crisis is reasonable and even good, certainly in the vaccination campaign.” However, he chose to repeat the accusation against the former chairman of the Corona Committee, MK Yifat Shasha Bitton, in charge of the fate of the victims of the plague.
“Not all the decisions were ours, Shasha Bitton decided to open all the businesses in Israel contrary to the position of the professionals and the government and brought us to 9,000 deaths a day. In the government, after the professionals decide to close businesses, Shasha Bitton arrives and decides to open them. What can we do? In question? “, He said.
Earlier today, Zohar claimed on 103FM: “If we had ousted Shasha-Bitton, we would not have been in that number of deaths. Shasha-Bitton did things that would be recorded in the pages of Israel’s history. In my career – that I was not able to remove her from her position. ” He made the remarks in response to Netanyahu’s controversial statement yesterday, which implicitly blamed Shasha-Bitton for the corona’s failures.
New Hope delivered in response to remarks: “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.”