Ramaswami: Israel is a step ahead even among all such countries. Netanyahu used the health crisis adeptly to strike a deal with opposition group and retain his hold on State power. This is necessary for him to tweak laws and gain immunity from investigation into his corrupt dealings. As the government he heads has a health minister who does not believe in secular knowledge and trusts only rabbis, Mossad, Israels’ spy agency was pushed into service to tackle a ‘health crisis’. Mossad officials bragged on camera that they had ‘stolen’ 100,000 face masks and respirators from other countries. Of course, they are following the footsteps of the ‘pirate of the world’, US, which stole shipments meant for countries like Germany and France, etc.