He doesn’t want to annex the West Bank else he would have done it by know... he does want to protect Palestinians and Israelis from terror groups though
@@scorest8601 no your the reason Palestinians are suffering because the Israeli companies give them jobs and then your part of the reason they lose their jobs do to boycott
the PM in Israel isn't the Commander In Chief. The PM together with the minister of defense and some other representatives choose a commander in chief which today is Aviv Kochavi
no, they also really believe they can do great things for israel, and i really hope for them to success. it's time for bibi to go, we don't need him anymore.
@@Gingy578 show me, how do they fail? after 3 years without state budget (because of the elections), the new government will likely approve a new one, alot of reforms gonna will be approved, and they actually able defend the country even with arabs in the coalition, things finally starting to change, we have a government that respect the law, the systems, the supreme court and etc.
07:26 Israel's PM is not the Commander in Chief. That's a title held by the president in the US and a few other countries, but it's not the norm around the world.
Actually it is rather the norm that the chief of gouvernment is Commander in chief - at least in wartime. In peace time it is usually the minister of Defense.
@@lucius1976 In most European countries, and in parliamentary democracies, the king or president is officially the Commander in Chief, but they are figureheads with no actual power. The PM or Minister of Defense is not the Commander in Chief in any country that I know of. They can dictate policies to the army indirectly, but don't control it outright. This is a huge difference from the authority of the US president. Only in presidential systems like France and South Korea the ruling politician is Commander in Chief.
@@Ynhockey you are correct but Japan's prime minister is the commander in chief despite the Emperor being the head of state. The Chancellor of Germany is the de facto commander in chief during war but the minister of defence for Germany is the c o c during peace
The brits don’t pronounce it the French way as Corp, although in french it’s writen corps , the s is silent. they say corps the English way pronouncing the S. In American English it’s pronounced the French way, as it is a French word for body. Body in french can also mean a branch of a military. Exemple “Un corps d’elite” It’s like the world center and centre. In French it’s centre, english say it the French way, while american say center. Not to forget that about 28% of all words in English comes from french, especially those words who have a T pronounced C, like education and information.
@@Visit_Tangier I did nearly 25 years in the military and met, served with, worked with and crossed paths with, literally hundreds of British, Australian and New Zealand military personnel on multiple occasions including in their own countries embedded inside their own units and I didn't encounter a single one who pronounced that word as "corpse." I can't say for sure but I really don't think they changed their speech habits just because I was there.
@@hughjass1044 Not pronouncing the S in English is an heresy. All English words coming from French, should have the S spoken. Exemple Paris in French the S is silent. In English Paris , the S is pronounced. Divisions in french S is silent , in English divisions you prounouces the S. The word corps comes directly from french and following English rules, the S should be pronounced, though, I agree that most say corps the French way, but that un-English to follow a french rule rather than English pronunciation logic.
@@Visit_Tangier look it up in any dictionary and it'll tell you that it's indeed pronounced like "core". Just because you don't like it, it doesn't mean that the language needs to be the way you think it should be.
yeah, this will be a juicy video. a man, who never even graduated highschool, never did a bachlors degree, was accepted for Ph.D studies, but was kicked out following press coverage of the scandal of breaking the rules requiring a bachlors degree. an actor, a journalist rising up to become the minister of economy and is not headed to be the prime minister of Israel - and all he needed to do was be the son of a parlimant member and have dozens of million of dollar in assets.
@@erezzukerman8483 אין לו תעודת בגרות אבל זה לא אומר שהוא טיפש, יש הרבה ללא תעודת בגרות שהגיעו לגדולה. הזלזול האוטומטי שלכם בלפיד מעיד יותר עליכם מאשר עליו, הוכיח את עצמו כפוליטיקאי הכי נורמלי בנתיים.
@@idan5607 wheres the bullshit? its all facts you can check for yourself. the only thing you can dispute was whether he was kicked out of that Ph.D program or Lapid decided to leave following the newspaper articles.
❗❗❗You have a huge incorrect information at the end of your video❗❗❗ There are 61 supporters to the new government. Bibi has 53 supporters on his side, and not 59 as you mentioned. The other 6 members belong to another arab party that is a combination of communists-seculars and arab/palastinian nationalists - They are part of the opposition, although they definitely do not support Benjamin Netanyahu, but neither they support Naftali Bennett for obvious reasons.
08:28 Economy is not one of the top 3 ministries, that's Finance. Economy is what is called "Ministry of Trade and Industry" in some countries. Interestingly, it was the same in Israel, until Bennett took up the post in 2013 and renamed it to Economy Ministry. It's considered a 2nd tier ministry though, similar to education, healthcare and interior.
Visual politik is being so biased toward Israel and against palestine. Every few videos there is something about Israel and palestine that is, of course, helping the Israeli propaganda and supporting the oppressive occupation
He was indited by people that are themselves corrupt and act as political players instead of actual law man. They have no evidence but they can indite and use it as political leverage while the court proceedings go on and on.
Other countries : right wing vs left wing Israel and France : center right vs ultra right wing US : Extreme right vs Extreme left Japan : f*ck it , liberal party is called right wing and conservatives are center right ( Japanese nationalism) India : literally 100s of parties , right ,left and extreme left , then comes Independent 🤣🤣 Politics is a circus itself .
This video is misleading. for example the headline: "ISRAEL's new LEADER who wants to annex THE WEST BANK". Bibi said on a number on occasions, including during the couple of last election campaigns, that he wants to annex the west bank too, but from your headline you make it sound like Bennet is special by saying it. another thing that's not quiet right is what you said in 15:36. The coalition has control of 61 seats in the Kneset but Bibi doesn't control all the rest of the remaining 59 seats because 6 of those seats belong to The Joint List, an Arab party that Bibi once warned that their mostly Arab voters are "swarming to the polls", and so they don't really support Bibi. Another thing that you barley mentioned is why in spite of securing the largest share of votes Bibi could form a coalition. 6 of the 8 parties in the coalition were in the past in coalition with Bibi or a part of the Likud party itself, even after the police started investigating Bibi and after his trial started. If those party leaders didn't have a personal grudge against Bibi, or if anybody else headed the Likud, this coalition would have never happen. As long as Bibi is heading the opposition, this government have a fighting chance. Israeli politics is a hot mess. If you cover it you need show the full picture or else you're misleading your viewers.
Completely agree, but I feel that in general this could be a topic of it's own video on "what the hell is this coallition" then this current video that is specific on Bennet.
@@shayna.6928 US is going on an isolated phase So Israel will not have such ambition for a while unless more more will join Iran side. South Africa put a good fight but did not last as long as Israel
Which Palestinian territory? There’s so much confusion over the West Bank, understandably. Areas A and B are where Palestinians can build, but Area C is where Israelis can build *legally.” This is Oslo Accords 101, but it’s still easy for people to get confused. There really isn’t any legal Palestinian territory. It was Jordanian territory, and now it’s Israeli territory after the 6-Day War, but it was never under Palestinian control. The Palestinians see themselves as a people group distinct from other Arabs, but they’ve never had a nation state or control of the land, either before the Jewish state’s establishment or after. I hope they can keep out terror groups like Hamas and eventually grow into self government of their own state. But Israel cannot allow another Gaza.
It's not radical, the two state solution ended up in a dead PM and a second intifada. Repeating a mistake? The Emirates idea in the west bank is much smarter.
The new guy heads a leftist government and he is essentially a puppet PM and a talking head His party holds 6 seats out of 120 in the parliament. He doesn't have a say in the government and extremely unpopular in Israel. In fact looks like Bibi will come back soon.
@@katalbinson6562 No. We already have 22 Arab countries, comprising of millions of square miles, why would we need another one? Israel represents 1% of the Area of the Middle East, I am sure the Arabs have enough space with 99% of all of the Middle East
This was very good, until it wasn't. For starters, there is no such thing as occupied Palestinian territory. The territory is simply disputed...nothing more, nothing less. Before Israel conquered it in 1967, it belonged to Jordan, which itself took it from?....no one. The Jordanians conquered it in the 1948 War. Before they absorbed it into their Hashemite Kingdom, it was controlled by Great Britain, which was given it as part of the Mandate following WW1. When the British pulled out of Palestine, the land had not been awarded to anyone, the Palestinians having rejected it as part of what was offered to them as a country within the framework of the UN suggested partition of the land. For a territory to be considered "occupied" (inferring "illegally), it had to conquered from the legitimate legal owner, concerning which, where was none as it relates to the so-called West Bank.
This video has accurate facts, although i couldn't disagree more with the interpretation and analysis of the situation. The main reason Netanyahu lost power was not due to loss of popularity (which btw didn't really happen), but because of parties (and theur leaders) ousting him. Bennet and Liberman sided with Netanyahu's coalition all these years, when Liberman resigned the problems have risen, and when him and Bennet went with the left, that's when he was kicked out.
I love this channel when talking about Israel and Palestine issues, but still and always be sided to Israel without able given information taken only from west media. What im talking about here ? When this boy mentioned on 11:35 about kids and hamas, it totally fxcking bias for Israel. Like that they did before, they not able show how palestinian make such decision either from palestinian from gaza or west bank. Plus, on 14:50 we can see here when arab Israeli just wanted accepted as Israeli, this channel manage make them fxcking ungrateful, by mentioning that jews Israeli will be fxck up when arab Israeli request something for they society in Israel. This channel always amazed me on they words. Now what i can see here and clearly this channel is one of channel getting sponsor from Israel for make they image looks fxcking good.
@@blacklight4720 well, when i said i love this channel bcause they able discuss big and hot topic that unsolved for years, and when i speak shit i did given my reason as stated that i said this channel just use one side story, that what i hate, it supposed refer several international information not only west when make conclusion, and this channel supposed influence or educated people, because this channel not a MAIN news outlets so not supposed bias on one sided. if this comment they unable to accept positively, they maybe should start turn off the comments.
@@mikicerise6250 not likely. Regardless of their political affiliations, most Israelis agrees that Iran poses an existential threat to their country. It may sound surprising but the left often criticized Netanyahu for not being tough enough on Iran when he was Prime Minister.
@@Elivinu There was a historical opportunity to improve the situation with the previous liberal Iranian government that was willfully squandered by Netanyahu.
@@mikicerise6250 "liberal Iranian government"? You can't be serious, buddy. Rouhani may have been slightly less hard-line than say, Ahmadinejad but he was still super conservative,at least by western standards. Look, idk whether Rouhani actually wanted to make peace with the West or not but the real power, especially on foreign policy lies in the hands of Ayatollah Khamenei and he has repeatedly signalled he'd rather die than see his country have peace with Israel & the West.
@@sunshine6522 most of the world hates Israel. Should have never been formed. That's why in the U.S. right now, people are protesting the government to stop giving any money to Israel. I support Palestine and more and more people are supporting Palestine after we've seen Israel gun down innocent civilians on day time television. Gaza is an open air concentration camp. Have the Jews forgotten what the Nazis did to them? Because Israel is doing the same thing to Palestinians. It's called Apartheid. Israel is a terrorist state.
It ok to annexed all West bank or Judea-Samaria what ever you love to called it, but dont forget to give palestinana arab muslim and christian israeli citizenship and equal right, if not, it mean you want just a land and not the people, it mean it totally land grab and ethnic cleansing.
The brits don’t pronounce it the French way as Corp, although in french it’s writen corps , the s is silent. they say corps the English way pronouncing the S. In American English it’s pronounced the French way, as it is a French word for body. Body in french can also mean a branch of a military. Exemple “Un corps d’elite” It’s like the world center and centre. In French it’s centre, english say it the French way, while american say center. The British are more right about this one as a silent S is a French thing, in English it’s an heresy. Exemple Paris in french the S is silent, in English you say Paris with S Not to forget that about 28% of all words in English comes from french, especially those words who have a T pronounced C, like education and information.
The coalition is not that of "mishmash" it is solid center left coalition with two right wing parties(All anti Bibi),Bannet is Liberal he doesn't see a problem in having different opnion, he doesn't want Taxes, he doesn't care Lgbt, feminist, Haredi, reform whatever he accepts people,he is patriotic person indeed and many young people support his views that is why I was also surprised he went this coalition, but they can do allot in internal issues especially the budget...
@@Michael_Pusa arab peace institutive since 2002 by most arab countries including Palestine Israel still says no, I think it’s hypocritical to not mention this.
@@antiquesmore7083 the Arab peace initiative was too good to be true. Well, I mean just couple of decades back Arab League was hell bent on destroying the Jewish state but all of a sudden they were ready to accept Israel's existence if they leave the "occupied" lands lol I don't think Israel is that naive.
@@antiquesmore7083 Bro these people will literally say nonsense and blatant lies then blame Palestine and call children terrorists. The Isreal experiments has been going on for too long, just acting like Nazi's to the people they invaded and still terrorise
Everyone knows the coalition won't last very long. First major contested issue and all they need is for one MK that they can't buy off to not support the government in a vote and the coalition will be a historical footnote. Biggest problem will be that a 5th election will probably give a very similar result with a tiny margin supporting a dysfunctional coalition government.
@@maayanmagal4629 actually it is very easy. Any MK can call for a no-confidence vote. If it gets a majority "for" result, the government falls and new elections are scheduled.
@@banto1 you should double-check that The current law from 2014 says that after a successful no confidence vote you must nominate a new government and if you fail the old government is back
@@banto1 האמון בישראל השתנה לאי אמון קונסטרוקטיבי, בעת הצעת אי אמון, על חברי הכנסת להציג לא רק ראש ממשלה חלופי אלא גם ממשלה חלופית, על כל שריה וקווי המדיניות שלה[5]. הכנסת חייבת בעת העלאת הצעת אי אמון בממשלה הקיימת גם להעלות ולהצביע ברוב חבריה אמון בממשלה חלופית לממשלה הקיימת. רק כאשר ישנה ממשלה חדשה המקבלת את רוב הצבעת חברי הכנסת, הממשלה הנוכחית מסיימת תפקידה
In a "startup-nation" - Benett did it again - a huge "exit" with his new start-up "Yamina party" from 0 seats to a prime minister in only 2 years. This is what we call a "unicorn" party :-) . (Yamina did not exist 3 years ago, and got 0 seats in the first election...)
@@dunkenbarger4865 remember the latest Gaza war more than 15 times casualties is on the Palestinian side Last time I checked it was the Israeli Air Force who did this Anyway I support Israel only when their right This time they weren’t And I ain’t saying hamas is right but nor is Israel it’s a case of bad and worse
@@dunkenbarger4865 cuz they were civilians and if Israel with its technology do this it is obvious that they kill civilians intentionally I come from a country where our people where our innocent civilians were massacred before our independence so I am from one of the few countries' population who know what Palestinians are going through cuz we ourselves have gone through it And for the record I love Jews but hate zionism and many people assume they are the same sad And again its just the bad and worse there is no good side here
Bennett sounds more qualified to be a national leader than almost any politician currently in power, especially when you compare him to the likes of Trudeau, Biden and Johnson.
Qualified like Hitler was. Like the South African apartheid leaders in the 70s. yes he is. he will steal what is left of the west bank and create a full apartheid state in which Palestinians have no rights.
lol i didnt know bennet even had those views. shooting children with weapons that count as terrorists and no 2 state solution. now i like him even more.
Why would they? The UN is basically a slave to the United States and Israel. Also since he was legitimately elected why would you want the UN to step in anyways?
He is actually very pro joint life with with Israeli Arabs, in fact he is the first to build a coalition with non Zionist parties. He is pro LGBT and progressive in some ways , he just understand the 2 state solution is not possible
@@shlomtzi84 I hope he does well and everything turns out okay between Jews and Arabs and that they can live together in peace as brothers. But life is so complicated.
I'm an Israeli and I must say that everything is incredibly accurate, it's just that we got a majority of 61 against 54 who support Netanyahu. The rest are the Arab party that stayed in the opposition and they don't support Netanyahu. Amazing job 🔥
@@Eran_Haim Why so defensive and attacking me already? Sensitive much? I wouldn’t be talking if I were you, especially with that last name of yours. You would think because they are part of the new government they have a voice…not. Just because you don’t like the truth doesn’t make it a lie.
@@eeeenas they negotiated from a position of power and got 52B shekels in budget for their part in the coalition. This is the ugly truth you’re hiding, which is that Arabs receive full rights as citizens of Israel. I’m totally calm btw 😌
Doubtful. Budgets aren't just about spending, they're about investing and forming income-producing projects and contracts. While the Knesset was unable to set budgets, Israel was at a developmental standstill and was losing money, or at least the opportunities to make money.
Im from Amsterdam i think its a great city. why ? because there hookers and weed are legal. 1million Americans 1 milion British that come to Amsterdam annualy agree. maybe Israel can legalise this to ?
Amsterdam has many Mosque and is very open to Islam and many Jewish people life in Amsterdam ( they say its a Jewish paradise ) and say this mokum is my paradise ( a Jewish nick name for Amsterdam) if you like to know more about this subject please contact me and feel free to reply ;-)
As an Israeli I believe it will happen in the coming years.. Israelis already smoke lots of weed, just go to any bar in tel aviv and you'll feel in an Amsterdam coffeeshop.. To top it all of, it's also super easy to buy (through phone app telegram) and has become cheaper and has more quality
Dude check your facts, there's no such thing as settlements on Palestinian soil and I'd dare you to prove otherwise, by any legal standard the entirety of the west bank always belonged to Israel, succession of control went from the Turks, British and Israeli eventually, there was never a sovereign state for the Arabs on this region, Jordan was created for that purpose...
It's true that there was no Palestinian state there, however Palestinians are the native people of that lands, they have been living there during British and Turkish rule. Majority of Jewish people living in Israel now are from Europe and America they r not the native population there. So even if there was no "state of Palestine", that doesn't change the fact that they have been living there for centuries and its not fair that the British just told them to leave coz they wanna give the land to others without compensating them in anyway.
@@foyezforid9497 Jews have been living there for centuries too and the majority of Arabs didn't live there for centuries either, most of them immigrated from neighboring countries, besides Arabs initially came to this land as occupiers so they are not much different than the Brits or the Turks, bottom line is almost every country in the middle east has its minorities but just because you're a minority living in a country that doesn't make you entitled to the land, arabs have gotten more than their fair share in the middle east, most of it by occupation btw, you have Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq and so on and so forth, this all notion of Palestinian statehood was created as a tool to destroy the one and only Jewish State by Arabs pretending to be nationless when in fact Arabs have too many countries...
To Foyez, note that most Jews in Israel are actually refugees from middle eastern countries (many of them Arab like: Yemen, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Syria) who ran away due to the Arab stance against the Jews (due the establishment of Israel). Therefore saying the majority of Jews are all Europeans is just wrong.
Israeli here. I have to say that this video describes really well the political situation in Israel. You mentioned sometimes some ideologies of the parties in the Bennet-Lapid government, but it's important to remember that in Israel you can't really promote an ideology, but you rather promote certain plans or ideas. For example, Ra'am is islamist but she can't promote islamism as an ideology because of the diversec coalition, so Ra'am promotes conservativism and arab-interests. Here are the ideologies of the parties in the government, you can see that they don't promote their whole ideology, but they focus on some ideas - Labor - social democracy, progressivism Meretz - social democracy, left wing populism, progressivism Yesh Atid - liberalism, welfare state mixed economy Blue&White - liberalism Ra'am - islamism, cultural right wing Yamina - right wing populism, conservatism, capitalist New hope - national liberal, capitalist Yisrael beitenu - russian speakers interests, capitalist
Addressing the elephant in the room is that peace in the middle East could be solved with a one state while devolving power to the Palestinian areas. It would stop the Palestinians at least living in blockade and abject poverty. Not a popular view I know but it is a solution....
A one state solution can't work with a true apartheid regime (which Israel is not), Israel MOST have a Jewish majority to keep the Jewish people safe, as it is the only Jewish state, a safe haven for a persecuted people.
@@FilmPeak three million addition won't tip the scales on that. At least this way they can legally settle on Palestinian land. The question would be on what grounds should you deny an annexed people citizenship and equal rights? That's the tough sell here, if they want Palestine they must give them equal rights unless it just becomes a conquest.
The description of Naftali Bennet is almost word for word that of Donald Trump. Bold and brash - Check Business experience - Check Pragmatic with use of violence - Check Pro-business/economy - Check Pro-LGBT in a right-wing party - Check Nationalist - Check
Israel is not apartheid. The only accusers claim that we practice apartheid on the people of the west bank. Even though their not israeli citizens and most have jordanian or pa citizenship.
I was quite disappointed in the analysis here. It contains quite a few inaccuracies. 1. Annexation- Bennett wanted to annex the West Bank but this is no longer on the table due to the peace deal with the UAE. 2. They fail to mention that Bennett plans on giving the Palestinians far greater autonomy than what they have now and wants to greatly improve their mobility and quality of life. This is known as “shrink the conflict.” 3. Bennett now, thanks to a defection, has six - not seven - seats 4. They portray Bennett’s modern orthodoxy as “more fundamentalist” than most Israelis. He is more religious, but not necessarily more fundamentalist. He is a very modern person. 5. The corruption charges were an issue, yes but it’s incorrect to say that they are the main reason Netanyahu lost. There are many other reasons ranging from coronavirus to instability that made voters dislike him. However, they fail to mention that the main reason he lost is due to bad personal relationships. Of the 8 parties, 6 have previously been in coalitions with Netanyahu and their relationships soured so much that they wanted to oust him. 6. His modern orthodox values wouldn’t necessarily oppose gay marriage as modern orthodoxy wants to take away power from the haredi establishment which has a monopoly over marriage. 7. While Mansour Abbas was called an “Islamist” the term is very vague. He would be considered to be among the religious right of Islam but he is very pragmatic. 8. Consistant with his “shrink the conflict” Bennett isn’t opposed to extra funding for Arab communities as the video suggests.
Lets not fool ourselves. The policy of Israel is an apartheid policy worse than white SA and the mentality of people is a racist one worse than Nazi Germany.
Just as Poland annexed parts of Germany after WW2, Israel survived being invaded by its Arab neighbors, and under International Law it won the territory in question. Winning a war of defense entitles that winner to territory that had previously belonged to the aggressor. This is common understanding in every part of the world except those countries dominated by Muslims. By the way, Jordan illegally occupied that territory, which was supposed to belong to the "Palestinians" from 1948 until the Six Day War. The so called "Palestinians" never complained about that occupation that was preventing them from having a homeland. That's because there is not, and never was, a Palestinian people, only Arabs.
Bro, did you just denied an entire population that has lived ther for century self-determination while at the same time supporting a country that is literally breaking international law, human right and has repeatedly killed important people of other country and has been killing civilin. And no, the United Nation have established a border to divide Palestine and Isreal (even if it is not recognized by those country couse they eant the other dead) and Isreal is the only one who is unilaterally expanding his border against all law
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You can't occupy it for decades without annexing it and granting its inhabitants citizenship
That's the dumbest thing I've heard, conquering territory happens all the time, what is not allowed is to ethnically cleanse the local populous and replace it Jews are you really that naive not to know that every major Israeli city was built on top of destroyed Palestinian villages, what happened to all the Palestinians in west Jerusalem? they got completely ethnically cleansed along with every city in the region.
Either the Palestinian Arabs are given a state of their own, or granted Israeli citizenship. There really is no other way, however, their is some wiggle room on land borders for Israel's ultimate security.
Why are you saying as if settlers and settlements are a bad thing?? Every settlement that was built only gave another Safe working place for both Israelis and Palestinians
@@thealligator918 Western media suppresses antisemitism you dolt. lol. Western media is so pro- isr ael it's not even funny. CNN literally fired a guy for criticizing the "settlements". LMFAO.
@@Sum_Ting_Wong the problem with Netanyahu was corruption, polarisation and debilitating the country from solving its economic problems due to him caring more about securing his own power. You have no idea how much of a relief this is to see hope for a brighter, more egalitarian and non idiotic future. Also, Bennet's views are the minority and will not see many if any legislations.
Final nail in Bibi's coffin was the fact that he was surrounded by yes-men. Bibi in 2009 had strong people around him, like Dan Meridor, etc, that would stop his crazy ideas in cabinet brainstorming meetings. During past few years he had only young yes-men that would support everything he says. It created a very ugly political atmosphere. Bennett is fiercly nationalistic, but not so much jewish as israeli, he is one of the strongest supporters of minorities who serve in the army, druze, beduin, etc. For example, he criticized bibi's nation state law, that it "hurts our druze brothers" www.jpost.com/israel-news/bennett-jewish-nation-state-law-harms-druze-563370 For a decade now he has been running various "brothers" campaigns, of uniting sectors of israeli society, while Bibi has often been running fearmongering campaigns "arabs are coming to vote in huge numbers" etc. But one of the Bennett's major selling points was that he led efforts against corona at the start of the crisis, before he was thrown out of the goverment by Bibi, many said that Bibi was afraid of his success, not failure. Bennett wrote a book about it, "how to defeat a pandemic". His plan was mass testing (that was before vaccines), and local lockdowns, while letting rest of the economy and education run. To lock down only centers of infection. Netanyahu instituted wide lockdowns, while turning blind eye on ultra orthodox tourists coming from US and UK, which were major flashpoints at the time. People did not like this "my kids can't go to school so that american orthodox can pray at the kotel on rosh hashana". Bibi's goverment relies on ultra orthodox parties.
