It's impossible to compare between the prime minister we had at the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic and the one we have now.
Especially given the fact that the novel virus has shown a hard resiliency against a line of variables, the warm weather and so-called health experts calling it "just a flu virus," voicing their opinions with the help of irresponsible TV news shows.
Moving forward from the March 2020 elections, it was clear who oversees the situation: Benjamin Netanyahu and some guy named Moshe Bar-Siman-Tov, who has since become everybody's next-door neighbor aka "Barsi."
But since then, several events occurred, among them the alternative leadership of Benny Gantz folding under the pressure of an "emergency" government and the start of a corruption trial for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust for a person some might have heard of.
Add to that Netanyahu, who defined the epidemic as the "worst crisis humanity has faced since the Dark Ages," the kind of emergency which causes an unprecedented economic fallout, has decided that the most necessary thing to do is to annex parts of the West Bank.
It's interesting how a man who works within the equation of "the state and I are one" is wasting a sizeable amount of energy and resources on an issue - annexation - which according to public polls, is at the very bottom of citizens' priorities.
At the same time, it is becoming evident that a leadership vacuum has emerged in the complicated and delicate management of the virus crisis which has rocked the foundations of so many nations worldwide.
The nearly month-long delay in restarting the country's railways, oxygen for much of the nation's workforce, is merely a metaphor for the fiasco that is Netanyahu's "an exit strategy."
Nation after nation has proven how irreplaceable public faith in the system is in helping the recovery from the 200-ton sledgehammer that is the coronavirus, regardless of how much you ignore the fact.
The enormous success of New Zealand and the dogged determination of Germany is stunning compared to the immense failures of the U.S., Brazil and the UK.
In Israel, the people see their representatives ignore public health orders while businesses and shops are slapped with fines for the most ridiculous infractions. We hear reports about the embarrassing failures within the testing and epidemiological systems, but mainly we see a complete absence of a leader willing to charge at the issue body and soul.
It's easy - and justifiable - to criticize the Blue & White party, which was on a mission to prevent a fourth election by joining a Netanyahu-led coalition, and whose involvement in the coronavirus crisis is almost negligible.
Benny Gantz wasn't there during the late-night press conferences of the early days of the pandemic or for the absurd victory celebration masquerade as a press conference during the first easing of restrictions imposed to fight it.
Maybe Netanyahu heard the rumors that the political system is already set for a 2021 vote, a fact that will shock the defense minister, and that his Likud party has skyrocketed in the polls.
Sure, let us not forget the "coronavirus cabinet" and the reassuring Facebook posts, but being honest, Israelis are sick and tired of the restrictions and the illogical handling of the epidemic.
The media was just dying to move on to a different issue and so was the prime minister, who has since elegantly departed stage left.
Well, we have to adhere to social distancing, don't we.