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Anger at government’s corona response boils over in rally; Haredim lash out over lockdown

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Published: 14 July 2020

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Large protests at economic fallout, with polls showing major dissatisfaction; Haredim call police ‘anti-Semitic Nazis’; drug supplies run low; special phone case used to avoid tracking

Hundreds block roads, clash with police in Tel Aviv after economic protests (Times of Israel)
Cops arrest several demonstrators, use riders on horseback and pepper spray to disperse crowds as traffic stalls on a number of major roads

Polls: Most Israelis dissatisfied with Netanyahu’s handling of pandemic (Times of Israel)
As protests mount, surveys suggest 75%-85% of Israelis unhappy with government’s economic response; Likud would lose three seats if elections held today, narrowly muster coalition

Haredi call police 'anti-Semitic Nazis' in coronavirus lockdown protests (Jerusalem Post)
Eggs were thrown at police by protesters, as they called the police "anti-Semitic Nazis"

Ten thousand Israelis protest poor government aid amid coronavirus economic crisis (Haaretz)
Self-employed from hospitality, tourism and arts industries stage apolitical protest in Tel Aviv; 12 protesters arrested, three officers lightly injured

Israel running low on Remdesivir, drug used in treating COVID-19 patients (Jerusalem Post)
'We are trying to get a hold of it,” Sheba Medical Centre’s Galia Rahav told the Jerusalem Post. She said the US President Donald Trump “bought all of it and one of it is left for the whole world'

Israelis use special phone case to avoid Shin Bet's coronavirus tracking (Jerusalem Post)
While people are using the cases to avoid Shin Bet tracking, they could unknowingly be infected with the coronavirus, and be out in public when they would have otherwise been in quarantine

Photo: Ten thousand Israelis gathered at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to protest government mismanagement of economic crisis caused by the coronavirus, July 11 (Tomer Appelbaum)
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