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Coronavirus-infected Israel, on brink of anarchy

As Israel records more than 3,000 new coronavirus cases a day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents and also his ultra-Orthodox partners gang up against him.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem on Sept. 8, 2020, after his government faced an uproar on its COVID-19 policy and then backtracked on it. — ALEX KOLOMIENSKY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

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