Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz faced the cameras at the Knesset June 1, attempting to reassure Israelis over their "coronavirus law" proposal: A bill to enable the government to extend the country’s state of emergency by 10 months. Both men promised that the proposed law won’t infringe significantly on individual rights.
Netanyahu and Gantz had their work cut out for them. The explanations they provided were designed to calm the public storm that broke out a few days earlier, after news broke of the government’s intention to legislate the new law in order to avoid a second wave of the virus.