While the coronavirus dominates world and domestic news, it doesn’t mean everything else has stopped. In Israel, the virus has overshadowed an unprecedented political and legal crisis that has left the country without a government and with an un-elected prime minister who is now ruling by decree.
Israelis who are trying to demonstrate their anger at this outside parliament have been stopped by police citing coronavirus restrictions and some who protested online have been sacked as a result. These are disturbing times for a country which claims to be the “only democracy in the Middle East”.
Listen to the episode by Eric Tlozek on ABC Sunday Extra.
[Editor: The ABC once again putting their nasty anti-Israel spin on to the events in Israel, glossing over the details in favour of rank sensationalism. Take the title ‘In Israel the coronavirus is adding to a political and legal crisis’ – Israel has in fact resolved the political crisis by Gantz joining in a coalition government but the title here gives the opposite impression.]