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July 27, 2020

How Israel’s Leaders Can Regain Their People’s Trust

A crisis of confidence.

In the past two weeks, the Israeli government has seemed to increasing numbers of citizens to be unequal to the task of handling the public-health and economic dangers stemming from the coronavirus. A widely criticized plan to hand out government subsidies willy-nilly, then a hasty order—just as hastily reversed—to close restaurants, and then the public defection of a previously loyal member of the prime minister’s Likud party have all contributed to this impression. David Horovitz explains this crisis of confidence, and how it might be reversed:

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