Blue and White Chairman wrote that the list gives full backing to the government's actions in handling the Corona crisis • "We will act responsibly"

In light of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's call for the establishment of a national emergency government due to the Corona crisis, Blue-White Chairman MK Benny Gantz wrote on Facebook: "I have proposed discussing the establishment of a broad emergency government and so far I have not received a serious answer from Netanyahu. ".

Netanyahu: "A Broad National Emergency Government Must Be Established" // Photo: Ami Shamir

On his Facebook page, MK Gantz wrote: "We are in the midst of a crisis of the complexities facing the State of Israel. The most important national task at this time is to stop the corona virus and not allow it to spread. We have seen countries that have responded responsibly and curbed the virus, and on the other two countries that have not taken the necessary precautions.

"I trust the medical officials in Israel who are some of the best in the world, who will give the appropriate guidelines and call on each of you to obey the instructions. I know the steps sound drastic, but this is not the time to round corners and not the time for complaints.

"My friends and I in blue are planning to join the fight against the Corona virus. Since the outbreak of the crisis, we are giving full backing to the government's actions and so we will continue to do so, which will be the political arena. No accounting, no reservations."

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MK Gantz said he received a request yesterday from PM Netanyahu via the media to join an emergency government. "A government that he defined as one who fights the virus that does not distinguish between right and left, between religious and secular, and between Jews and Arabs," Gantz wrote. "In a conversation I later had with him, I told him that we would continue to charge every move and that I suggest that our negotiating teams meet and discuss the need and possibility of establishing a broad emergency government for the near term. So far I have not received a serious response from my proposal. At this time. "

However, MK Gantz made it clear that "even if no response is received and if no such emergency government is established at the end of the day, I intend to act responsibly. We will take every proper action of the government, we will assist the Knesset in passing the required budgets and the painful measures that will still come, unfortunately. "