The State of Israel enters a third closure: what is forbidden and what is allowed?

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The last time? The State of Israel entered tonight at 17:00 (Sunday) a third closure since the outbreak of the corona epidemic about ten months ago, during which traffic restrictions and trade, recreation and leisure activities will be imposed. The closure will last for two weeks and will be extended for another two weeks, unless there is a decrease in the daily number of verified persons of at least one thousand and a decrease in the coefficient of infection, which will be less than 1.

Following the jump in morbidity: Israel entered a third closure // Photo: Paz Bar, newsenders

About 6,000 police officers and more than 300 checkpoints will be deployed in order to enforce the closure restrictions. On intercity roads, 21 checkpoints will be set up in random places to divert traffic, but from 18:00 daily until midnight, more than 300 permanent checkpoints will be set up on roads throughout the country.
The regulations restrict traffic to a distance of one kilometer from home, with a few exceptions: going out to get vaccinated, medical or social care, demonstration, legal proceedings, going out for sports activities, transferring a minor between his separated parents, going to a work place or educational setting, and going out for funerals. , At a wedding or alliance (subject to the crowd limit). Each such violation will result in a fine of NIS 500.

Accommodation units and B & Bs, a zoo, safari, nature reserves, national parks, national sites and memorial sites will also be closed; A place to provide non-medical treatment, including a hairdresser and a place to provide beauty and cosmetic treatments, a place to provide complementary medicine treatment, a drive to watch movies, a mall or a retail market and a museum. In addition, the possibility of self-collection from places selling food will be eliminated.

Meanwhile, a demonstration of hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews belonging to the Jerusalem faction is taking place in Bnei Brak. The protesters went down to Highway 4 near the Coca-Cola interchange and blocked the road in protest of the arrest of a deserter from the army. Traffic jams were also recorded in the Sharon.

Arrested in clashes between protesters in the Jerusalem faction and the police in Bnei Brak // Photo: Police spokeswoman

This morning there was a drama during a meeting of the Knesset Education Committee, when it was decided that fifth to tenth grades would also be taught in schools during the closure, in cities defined as “green” or yellow.

The Education Committee rejected the regulations: 5th-10th graders will study in schools in closure // Photo: Knesset Channel

The Ministry of Education is examining the significance of the decision and whether the students will return to schools tomorrow. The secretary general of the Teachers’ Union, Yaffa Ben-David, said at the hearing that the organization would declare a labor dispute – and in fact threatened to suspend schooling: “It is true that the countries of the world have not closed the education system, but there are small groups. We also need to learn in small groups. If they did, it would be possible to teach routinely and even if there were closures the system would be open. We will not abandon the teachers. “

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health this morning published the latest data on coronary heart disease – and what shows that 63,658 new tests were performed yesterday, 2,636 of which were found to be positive. Thus, the rate of positive results stands at 4.1%.

2,636 positives were diagnosed yesterday // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

The Ministry of Health also stated that there are 35,560 active patients in Israel. The number of patients is 1,056. 604 of them in critical condition (172 of them in critical condition). In addition, 145 patients were resuscitated and 208 patients were in moderate condition. To date, 3,222 people have died from the virus in Israel. The number of staff members in solitary confinement stands at 2,861, of whom 411 are physicians and 768 brothers and sisters.

Since midnight, 17,355 new tests have been performed to detect the virus, 872 of which have turned out to be positive – so the rate of positive tests as of 09:04 stands at 5%.

According to an update by the Ministry of Health, Israel is in second place in the world in the number of vaccines per capita (after Bahrain). However, the rate of verifications for the virus has been rising for the past two weeks – a figure that indicates a significant increase in the spread of the disease. The infection coefficient as of this morning is 1.27.

Participated in the preparation of the article: Meital Yasur Beit-Or, Shlomi Diaz, Shimon Yaish, Noam (Devol) Dvir, Hayali Yaakovi-Handelsman and Itzik Saban

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