JL;DR SUMMARY Critics are questioning whether Israel's caretaker government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is using the COVID-19 crisis to consolidate authoritarian control through actions like tracking cell phones and limiting Knesset activities with the support of allies such as Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.