Activist Alon Beer responded to the Biden victory announcement in the United States by addressing a tweet to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu: "The new president will bring the Palestinian issue back to the table and demand a construction freeze, but in the world's biggest test since the Second World War - COVID-19 - he will have a true friend; closures, fear-mongering, masks, and a religious belief that one can stop a respiratory virus for the first time in history. Good luck, even though it is a virus with 0.23% mortality."