Featured: Bibi, it's over

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Benjamin Netanyahu, Sunday June 14, 2021 in the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, in Jerusalem.

AP - Ariel Schalit

By: Frédéric Couteau Follow

9 mins

Publicity

It is the " 

fall of" King Bibi "

 ": " 

Netanyah-out

 ", exclaims

Liberation

on the front page with this photo of the now ex-Israeli Prime Minister, with a dark face.

With 60 votes to 59, Naftali Bennett was elected Prime Minister of Israel yesterday, Sunday,"

the newspaper notes.

At the head of a baroque coalition going from the extreme right to the left, he puts an end to the reign of Netanyahu.

A change of era as fragile as it is historic.

 "

Comment from

Liberation

 : “

 Never, even in our wildest dreams - or nightmares - would we have imagined writing in these columns our relief at the idea that the leader of the settlers' party, Naftali Bennett, would become Prime Minister of 'Israel. Colonization, we can never say it enough

, says

Liberation, is an evil that continues to eat away at Israel and the West Bank, oppressing the Palestinians, preventing any creation of two states capable of living side by side and maintaining a situation of latent or open war which regularly causes destruction of infrastructure, injuries and deaths. However,

the newspaper notes,

Bennett's coming to power has several advantages.

First, it marks the departure of Netanyahu after twelve years of a reign by fear which will have done a lot of damage to the country, deteriorating its image on the international scene, relegating the Palestinians of Israel to the rank of second-class citizens ( third zone for those of Gaza and the West Bank) and every week more burying the prospect of one day seeing this region at peace.

Without counting the accusations of corruption which could lead Bibi to prison (…).

 "

Netanyahu himself has become his greatest enemy

So, " 

the new Israeli government looks like a Spanish inn

,"

Le Figaro

notes

.

It comprises twenty-eight ministers, including six deputy ministers, and is one of the largest cabinets in Israel's history even if it is smaller than the previous one. For the first time, it will count in its support an Arab party, without which it would not have obtained the majority in Parliament. (…) And his unity is cemented by the desire to get rid of Benjamin Netanyahu who becomes the leader of the opposition.

 "

And

Le Figaro

quotes the editorial from

Yedioth Ahronoth

, the best-selling Israeli daily: “

 Netanyahu is not leaving the post of prime minister because of his failures, but because of his personality.

In recent years, he has become his own greatest enemy: his self-centeredness, his personal and public paranoia, his greed, his constant incitement and his inordinate pride have united opposition to him from across the political spectrum to the point that 'they joined forces to successfully bring him down

.

"

Read also: Israel: chaotic inauguration of the government of N. Bennett, Netanyahu leader of the opposition

Covid-19: it's not over

Also on the front page, in France, beware of relaxation in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic. 

Hundreds of night owls on Saturday evening on the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris,

notes

Le Parisien

, for an evening more geared towards excess than wearing a mask. A little earlier, the Biarritz-Bayonne Basque rugby derby broke all the rules: 5,000 spectators exceeded, sale of alcohol inside the stadium, invasion of the field ... Excesses that are not to be taken lightly, according to Professor Gilles Pialoux, head of the infectious disease department at Tenon hospital in Paris. Asked by Le Parisien, Professor Pialoux warns: "with the good weather, the jubilation of the Euro football, these events will multiply. (...) I defend a prevention package, he continues: vaccination + curfew + screening + wearing of the mask All with a proportional dose! But today, the mask is demonized, the curfew is poorly respected while opposite, the vaccination slips.Our obsession with going too fast could cost us dearly. "

 "

Hence the importance of continuing the vaccination campaign and leaving fully vaccinated for the holidays.

"

 Holidays, I forget everything, except my second dose of vaccine, 

" exclaims

Southwest

.

Indeed, points out the newspaper, vacationers must ensure to receive their second injection before their departure, or outright after, on their return from vacation.

Objective: to prevent seaside and coastal towns, highly touristic places, from being totally saturated with requests for a second injection.

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