Yamina chairman MK Naftali Bennett attacked the Likud-Blue and White unity government during the submission of a motion of no-confidence in the Netanyahu-Gantz government over the failure to properly prepare for a second coronavirus wave.
"The job of a leader is to take care of bread," Bennett said from the Knesset plenum. "Don't talk to me about ideology, don't talk to me about the court and Mandelbit, Shmandelblit. That's just noise."
"When a citizen of Israel wants to bring home bread, bread [is the issue]," Bennett declared. "He doesn't want any favors from you. He just wants you to not close his business."
"So get up, start working, and start getting serious. Deal with the anxiety over the most fundamental of things. It's your duty to let the Israeli public bring home bread," Bennett said.
The Yamina party submitted a vote of no-confidence in the government Monday. Bennett stated that the vote of no-confidence was submitted due to the government's "treatment of the citizens of the country, the small businesses, and the testing plans are completely detached from the needs of the people."
"The government does not promote testing as a matter of course. We spend precious months at a low testing rate, which leaves us in a state of uncertainty, despite the possibility of increasing the scope of the tests to about 50 thousand tests a day. It's possible, but for that you have to want it. Israel lost the ability to perform 60,000 tests a day.
"At the moment, only a few thousand tests are being carried out each day, very late and inaccurately. Patients wait long days at home. Families and friends of 'infected' students are not examined. People returning from abroad are not examined," he said.
"This is the reality that the government has led us to. And here we are. It is negligence, laziness, and a fixation. At the beginning of the crisis, Yamina presented a national plan for dealing with the coronavirus crisis without crushing society, with an emphasis on an improved testing and assessment system and the revival of the Israeli economy," Bennett emphasized.