It has to be said out loud: we have been abandoned.
The government of Israel, the government of healing, change and reunification, the government that promised to focus on rehabilitating the plague and transferring a budget, simply abandoned us.
At the beginning of her tenure, there was a single-digit number of Corona patients in Israel.
Today, two months later, there are more than 6,000 verified in Israel every day.
We were abandoned.
It started promisingly.
Media visits by the Ministry of the Interior and Transportation at Ben Gurion Airport, accompanied by the Prime Minister, with mutual paragons. Separation of terminals for red and green countries. We came to work, promised, and even I, who vehemently opposed this government, consoled myself It turns out that even the previous, private government did a better job than that.
No concessions should be made to this government. The corona is not a new phenomenon that needs to be learned from scratch. The members of the government did not suddenly discover that there are different variants that Ben Gurion Airport is their entrance gate. Everything was known. Prime Minister Bennett even wrote a book about it, detailing how to overcome an epidemic. Not to blame - Netanyahu, the Ministry of Health, the ultra-Orthodox, the whole world and his wife, and here, two months have passed, and we are facing a broken trough three weeks before the start of school, with a number of verified and sick in an increasing condition.
Give us the keys, they asked, and got. And what are they doing now? Fleeing. We are abandoned. We are left with Lieberman and Lapid, the finance minister and foreign minister (and alternate prime minister) who are deliberately absent from the corona cabinet meetings, as if preparing the alibi for a pre-determined failure. We are left with an almost non-existent health minister, who publicly abandons his ministry officials. We were left with an education minister who only a month ago claimed in the cabinet that there was really no increase in the number of patients, and was conducted with ease when it came to vaccines. We were left with a transport server that was not even a member of the same Corona cabinet.
The heads of state abandoned us.
They do not invest effort at Ben Gurion Airport, do not concentrate effort in Arab society, where the epidemic in the skies and immunization in the ground, they did not activate a green mark in time, and outline return to school as a science fiction client. Minister Shaked decided this week to lie on the fence. That from the first moment the government decided to live alongside the corona in the understanding that there are vaccines, while bridging the sick and the dead.This is a bad statement with catastrophic significance.
Morbidity could have been curbed with proportionate restrictions, enforcement and aggressive advocacy, alongside immunization.
But with today's numbers we are galloping towards a closure, and it is happening because of one thing: the Israeli government that has abandoned us.