The Knesset’s winter opening session started with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu castigating each other’s leadership and policies.
Some opposition members booted from the plenum for heckling Bennett at the outset of a speech outlining his government’s achievements.
Opposition leader Netanyahu accused the government of “abandoning people to their deaths,” accusing it waited too long before launching its COVID-19 vaccination booster shot campaign.
Prime minister Bennett touted the government’s COVID-19 policy of keeping the economy open avoiding lockdowns, while opposition members shouted that it had cost Israel many lives.
“We are stopping the virus, without a single day of lockdown. The State of Israel is open — something that was once taken for granted is no longer taken for granted,” said Bennett.
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