"Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has looted the entire world of senior Ministry of Health officials and senior doctors advising the government," a senior health ministry official told Israel Today following the unprecedented criticism Bennett raised in his speech at the UN General Assembly and later in a press briefing against senior Ministry of Health officials. And the health system that advises the government in the fight against the plague.
According to the senior official, "Worse, even if the prime minister did not mean it, he gave a boost on one of the most important platforms in the world to those who cause the greatest damage in Israel to the epidemic - vaccine opponents, vaccine hesitants and corona deniers." "The professional factors in the Ministry of Health and that they 'stutter' when he asks them."
The senior official added that "the impact of Bennett's remarks could be devastating and deadly, both in severely undermining public trust, in the tendency to follow the recommendations and instructions of the Ministry of Health and in the desire of millions of Israelis to get vaccinated. This is perhaps one of the most serious and offensive The corona, and more regardless of what was done at the UN, and it would have seemed like an elimination to the whole world of the top of the Ministry of Health. "
"Shame and disgrace to Bennett"
One of the top health officials in the country told Israel Today that "it is very tempting to think what Defense Minister Bennett would say about Prime Minister Bennett: 'Are you crazy? What are you doing? Catch yourself in your hands.' True leadership knows how to harness the professional echelon and work with it , As some of the other ministers are doing very nicely, conducting a matter-of-fact discussion and mostly not looking for excuses for the very difficult data, according to which since the outbreak of the fourth wave more than 1,200 Israelis have died, which he did not mention a word. This is the prime minister, and he is still proud of his achievements in the war in Corona and how wonderful everything is, shame and disgrace. "
Health ministry officials further said Bennett's unprecedented remarks were aimed at harsh and cross-cutting criticism of the prime minister's corona policy raised last Thursday by the cabinet of experts, which is the most important and professional body advising the government on fighting the corona.
This was the first time that the Cabinet of Experts said that government policy was dangerous, failed, destructive, incorrect and contrary to the repeated demands of senior Ministry of Health officials.
According to them, this policy has already led to mass infections, mass isolation in the health system and a severe and consistent increase in the critically ill and dead.
Prime Minister Bennett at the UN: "The nuclear program in the watershed and the amount of our patience, we will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons."
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The expert cabinet is headed by Prof. Ran Blitzer, head of the innovation department at Clalit Health Fund and one of the main physicians advising the government on this issue.
This is the first time since the beginning of the epidemic that the Cabinet of Experts has been so harshly critical of the government, with the significance of the criticism being the unforgivable result of government policy: nearly 1,200 coronation victims have died in the fourth wave, ie 20-30 deaths daily, between 8,000 and 10,000 verified New daily, more than 700 critically ill patients in hospitals, about 80 new critically ill patients a day and more than 200 critically ill respirators - a record number in the current wave.
The discussion of the expert cabinet took place last Wednesday and was attended by, among others, Prof. Nachman Ash, Director General of the Ministry of Health; Dr. Sharon Elrai Price, Head of Public Health Services;
Prof. Salman Zarka, Commissioner of the Corona;
And Prof. Galia Rahav, director of the Infectious Diseases Department at the Sheba Government Hospital in Tel Hashomer.
The education system is also due to reopen tomorrow, and the difficult failures of the Ministry of Education in managing the epidemic in the education system could be learned from the courageous words of Dr. Elrai Price, head of public health services, who told the Cabinet of Experts. "At this stage, almost none of the main components remain - some have been abolished by the government and the education committee and some cannot be applied to the extent of the existing morbidity."
The Cabinet of Experts stated that "the extent of the ongoing illness in the last month has taken a heavy toll, and despite the hope of a decrease in morbidity due to the vaccination campaign, it is impossible and unlikely to continue on the existing route and require a change in interim policy.
Experts added that it is a grave mistake that government policy is based primarily on the desire not to pay compensation to businesses and leave the economy open.
The Corona Cabinet describes the current government policy as "absorption for an almost unlimited period of time and with no major effort to curb (spread the epidemic) and reduce adhesions."
In fact, the Cabinet describes, for the first time, the government's policy of leaving the entire economy, education and culture open with almost no restriction, and then "absorbing" or "containing".
In other words, no matter what the price, no matter how heavy and disastrous it may be, in the mortality of Israelis, this policy will have.
The Cabinet of Experts further warned that it is dangerous and wrong for the government to place the entire government's policy in the fight against the epidemic - almost - solely on vaccines, including booster vaccines, and at the same time to impose almost no restrictions on the economy.
According to the Corona Cabinet, the government's decision that the entire policy of combating the plague is based almost exclusively on vaccines, without imposing curtailment restrictions, is what led to the difficult situation in Israel today.
