Blue and White: 'Likud are the last who should be giving lectures'

• Date: 29 March 2021
• Author: Hezki Baruch
• Published date: 29 March 2021

"Yisrael Katz prevented the citizens of Israel from having a state budget, and with his own hands he has harmed the ability of hundreds of thousands of citizens to recover from the coronavirus crisis," Blue and White said in a statement.

Earlier on Monday, Katz had voiced concern that if the meeting were not held as planned, the budget for purchasing additional doses of coronavirus vaccines later on would not pass. As such, he called on Gantz to put politics aside for the sake of managing the pandemic.

On Sunday night, Blue and White's leader, Defense Minister Benny Gantz, announced his refusal to attend the Monday meeting, effectively canceling it entirely.

Soon afterwards, the Likud said: "For appointments and jobs, Gantz is preventing the...