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Cabinet thwarts Netanyahu’s bid for curfew; PM defends Pfizer deal

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Published: 17 November 2020

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Netanyahu responds to criticism of secrecy: some clauses not meant to be published; Greek paper compares Pfizer’s Jewish CEO to Josef Mengele

Coronavirus cabinet ends meeting without decision on reimposing restrictions (Times of Israel)
Officials thwart Netanyahu’s bid for night-time curfew; ministers to reconvene Monday, with the premier expressing frustration at lack of agreement

Netanyahu defends Pfizer deal: ‘This is a very good investment’ (Jerusalem Post)
Netanyahu said that some clauses of the contract were not, in fact, meant to be published and said that “we do not want to jeopardize the supply by revealing the details of these agreements.”

Greek newspaper likens Pfizer’s Jewish CEO to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele (Times of Israel)
Daily warns readers Albert Bourla, a Greek Jew, will ‘stick the needle’ in them, calls prospective COVID vaccine ‘poison’; its publisher was convicted of anti-Semitic defamation

Photo: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, right, is juxtaposed with Josef Mengele on the front page of the Makeleio daily in Greece, November 10 (Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece via JTA)
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