In Danny Boyle’s film 28 Days Latera mysterious and incurable virus devastates humanity and survivors are forced to seek refuge in order to survive. The film ends with a happy ending, unlike the original version of the script in which the protagonist played by Cillian Murphy died after all the hardships he went through. Gadi Eisenkot has the same 28 days (plus two weeks of possible extension) to find a government formula capable of giving it a majority in the Knesset and preventing the virus of Jewish religious fundamentalism from continuing to tear apart Israeli democracy.
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