The Eilat municipality today (Thursday) demanded that the government immediately impose a one-week closure on the city in order to reduce the morbidity, and then return the layout of the Green Islands.
“An absurd situation has arisen. When the Green Islands outline worked, we had control of the disease in the city, because we could prevent verified people from entering the city. Now anyone can enter Eilat without a check and that is also the reason for the increase,” said Eilat Mayor Meir Yitzhak Halevi at a press conference.
“Our responsibility as city management is to take care of the health of our residents and of course the health of the vacationers who frequent the city,” Halevy noted. .
Halevy further noted that during the operation of the Green Islands, the morbidity situation in the city of Eilat was the lowest in Israel and the economy began to recover, but after the outline was abolished and the closure, morbidity rose and unemployment in the city rose to about 60%.
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“There was a pike closure in Eilat, thousands entered and entered the city without control or enforcement. Some are verified patients who endanger the population and led to an increase in morbidity,” Halevy claimed. ” “That the Ministries of Health and Tourism will accept our plan, because there can be no situation in which they will allow a vacation on a Greek island before operating a green island in Eilat.”
Vacationers in Eilat in May (Photo: Yossi Zeliger, Flash 90)Acting Mayor of Eilat, Eli Lankri, expressed concern about the entry of thousands of Israelis into the city this coming weekend. “There are about 3,000 AIRBNB apartments in the city and Eilat hosts thousands more vacationers in their homes without enforcement,” he further warned – “Operating a green island layout will allow four “One million citizens of the State of Israel (about three million vaccinated and another million recovering) to vacation in Eilat without causing an increase in morbidity.”
Halevy and Lankri clarified that they had formulated a comprehensive recovery plan for the city of Eilat and presented it to the Ministries of Health and Tourism. “I must point out that we received attentive ears,” said Halevy. “In the conversations I had with the Minister of Health and the Minister of Tourism, as well as with senior officials in the Ministry of Health, they certainly understood the logic.