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Yom Kippur is the most important day on the Jewish calendar, twenty-four hours of fasting and atonement. Reflecting on last year. This time the pause will serve the Israelis to try to understand how this could have happened, how it is possible that as a green and virtuous nation – in May new cases of Covid-19 were heading towards zero – has turned deep red.
The government has decided to impose even harsher measures than those introduced a week ago, Israel is the first country to have imposed a second blockade. Starting tomorrow, all offices and companies that are not considered essential will close, supermarkets and pharmacies will remain open. The ban on going out more than a kilometer from the house extends to those who want to participate in a demonstration and synagogues will be closed after Yom Kippur, which begins at sunset on Sunday.
Not all ministers voted in favor. The opposition accuses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of using new rules to disperse protests In front of the Via Balfour residence in Jerusalem: thousands of protesters have been gathering for months and shouting at the head of government to resign, for having mishandled the epidemic because his head was immersed in the corruption trial.
Analysts note that it took six months for the country to exceed 100,000 total cases since the start of the pandemic and only 32 days for them to double.: At this time Israel registers the highest number of new infections in the world in twenty-four hours (7 thousand), but it is also the third by the tests carried out. The dead are 1,316, more than 60 percent as of August. Clinics warn that they are on the brink, the defense minister has given orders to build field hospitals.
Ronny Gamzu, the epidemiologist in charge of coordinating the fight against the virus, opposed the new restrictions. He believes that the blow to the economy will be devastating, he is convinced that the virus is spreading in the family and in restricted communities, not in the workplace (lessons at school have already stopped).
The epidemic is out of control in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods and in predominantly Arab villages. Gamzu had prepared a traffic light plan for enforce a curfew only in red zones and reduced restrictions on the yellow ones (the others are green): the proposal was rejected by the ultra-Orthodox parties, the rabbis rebelled against the blockade of religious schools and synagogues. Netanyahu couldn’t afford to lose the coalition allies that keep him in power, and Israel locked itself into the second blockade.
September 24, 2020 (change September 24, 2020 | 10:19 am)
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