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The second three-week lockout in Israel will take effect on Friday, the measure was voted on by the government after a mid-day debate, reported an MTI correspondent in Jerusalem.
The shutdown begins with a strict bribe for three weeks due to an increasingly serious epidemic. This period runs from the Jewish New Year, which begins on Friday, to the Feast of Simchat Torah, which ends with the Feast of the Tent.
Housing Minister Jakov Licman, one of the leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi Ashkenazi party’s Jahadut HaTóra party from the Guri Hasidic Party, resigned on Sunday due to synagogue restrictions that also apply during the holidays.
During the three week period, everyone in the country can only leave their home within a maximum of 500 meters. All educational and leisure institutions will be closed, only grocery stores and pharmacies will be open.
The government’s decision made it easier to regulate work at the time of closure. Although all non-vital jobs would have been closed in the original version, at the government meeting on Sunday it was decided that they could continue working in the private sector.
Experts at the Israel TV channel 12 criticized the government for failing to increase hospital capacity since the first wave of the epidemic in the spring. The institutions are equally capable of receiving only 800 seriously ill patients, although health care has received a significant amount in recent months to increase the number of beds.
It is also of concern that, at the end of the short circuit, it is not certain that a system of contact tests is established to preserve the result of the breeze block, the least expected number of new infections and slow the appearance of another wave.
The strict lockdown is only the first stage of emergency measures and depending on the results, new less extreme restrictions are expected to continue to slow the spread of the coronavirus in Israel.
Professor Roni Gamzu, Commissioner for Crown Affairs, announced his departure on November 1 after the introduction of a “stoplight plan” that would have established distinct and different rules for differently infected settlements.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined the measures in a televised speech and promised to present a financial aid package to disadvantaged economic operators on Thursday.
In Israel, around nine million 154,759 people have so far been confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus, and 38,008 active infections are recorded on the Ministry of Health website.
Since the SARS-CoV-2 virus, 1,108 people have died in Israel since February. Currently, 1,056 coronavirus patients are being treated in hospitals across the country, 513 of whom are seriously ill and 139 are treated with a ventilator.
Since the outbreak, more than 154,000 cases have been identified in the neighboring state.
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