At a Facebook conference, Yair Revivo strongly criticized the government for managing the Corona crisis • "They are strong on weak cities" • "In Raanana there are 311 patients, why not close it?" • "Allow events like weddings, everyone ate from the same chickpea, obviously it will cause infection"

Attacks on attack: Lod Mayor Yair Revivo comes out against the government in light of reports of government hearings on imposing closures to prevent the spread of the Corona. "The government is strong on weak cities," he said Thursday during a live press conference on Facebook. "Closing Ramla, Lod, Beit Shemesh and the city of Dimona while places with similar rapid growth, and even more, will not close. If it turns out to me that this is a site that only deserves to say 'we did' and 'strong on the weak' - I will not cooperate with it anymore."

Revivo claims that there are cities whose morbidity is higher than reported in Lod, but it has not been decided to close them. "Let's take Raanana and Lod for example," he says. "In both cities there are 80,000 residents, but the ratio is different. The percentage of patients in Lod is 15 percent and in Raanana it is 22 percent. In Raanana this week there are 56 new verified patients in front of Lod with 45 patients. In total, Raanana has 311 patients compared to Lod where there are 329. I don't understand why you are closing Lude and Raanana are not. Are you trying to be strong on the weak? If it turns out to me that there is no transparency and no equality, we will stop cooperating with the government and we will no longer be closed to closures. "

The mayor added and attacked the government because it deals with internal struggles and not with the crisis. "The transitional government has been much better," claims Revivo. "A government was formed that the people of Israel did not want, inflated, with too many ministers, who only deal with unnecessary internal struggles and did not help us with the Corona. I love the prime minister. I was the head of his election. But besides, nobody understands the size of the event. Many on the Knesset committees. Israeli mayors are struggling and the feeling is that they are alone. If that is the case - they will run the Home Front Command in front of us and get along alone. "

Revivo also notes: "I have a birthday tonight. I, as a personal example and mayor, will celebrate it in isolation."

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Lod Mayor also refers to Israel's entry into the second wave of the epidemic, and strongly criticizes the Ministry of Health: "Allow events like weddings, and what did they expect? Didn't tell people, for example, to bring only disposable food. I was shocked. Everyone ate the same chickpeas, the same utensils Serving, dancing in a closed place, obviously it will cause mass infection.I don't understand where the Ministry of Health was, how they didn't think about it.

"In Lod, all the places where mass infestation was recorded were either weddings in the Arab sector or events such as kiddos, grooms, and the like in the Jewish sector. Which goes without saying. There is a small table with food that everyone takes from it."

At the end of his remarks, the mayor said that many neighborhoods in the city will be closed for the Shabbat closure, and in the Arab neighborhoods, the closure will continue until Tuesday. The government is expected to discuss closure tonight in Lod. In the event that it is decidedly so, forest parks and the Sakh neighborhood are expected to join the closure of the railway neighborhoods, Pardes Snir and Neve Shalom, which are under traffic restrictions until Tuesday.

"The closure is working, the level of infection has dropped, the morbidity has dropped, but if they do not explain to me why in Givatayim, Tel Aviv and Raanana have no closure when there is more infection, I will stop cooperating with the government," Revivo stressed. "In general, the closure is sometimes only seen as a mandatory step and not as a serious step. I urge everyone to cooperate anyway."

During the press conference, there were numerous reactions from residents who praised him and expressed huge outrage at the sense of discrimination regarding Lod.

Shlomit, a resident of the city, wrote: "You are so right. It is worrying that there is no equality between the cities."

Others also complained about the irregular activities of the Ministry of Health. A neighborhood resident in the city to be closed wrote: "The son of a worker who lives in a forest has been diagnosed as verified. I asked her to be tested because she was at work for the past week. Services for city residents. Find a peripheral solution. "

The general atmosphere in Lod is very difficult and among the residents there is a sense that there is no national management of the crisis when it comes to the Corona. One resident said that "this is a national-scale event. Why is it that mayors are chasing the Ministry of Health and not the other way around?"