Dozens of isolators at the Leonardo Hotel in Jerusalem tried today (Monday) to leave the hotel and escape the isolation in the Corona Hotel. The security guards at the scene pushed them back to the hotel and a riot broke out.
Yuval Peretz, who is isolated at the hotel, told News 12 that “the doors are closed on us and they threaten that we will receive reports and be arrested if we do not go up to the room.” Peretz added that she has been at the hotel since Saturday: “We were worked on to see an exceptional committee that left the airport. In the end we were convinced and of course no committee and no shoes for three days. There are people from outside here who came to demonstrate and support us.”
Concurrent with the riots that erupted at the hotel, Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kish today called on his Twitter account to abolish the obligation to insulate in hotels and move to a model of home insulation. “In light of the scenario, he explained that the vaccines are also effective in the fear of being infected with the mutation. It is correct to switch to home isolation and stop the isolation in hotels,” Kish wrote.
Insulators at the Grand Court Hotel in Jerusalem are protesting, demanding that they be released from solitary confinement. Some are forcibly trying to get out of the place@sharonidan pic.twitter.com/TNkQsPVLoq
– News here (@kann_news) December 28, 2020
Meanwhile, dozens of passengers who returned to Israel from abroad were waiting today for an exceptions committee that will allow them to avoid traveling to the Corona hotels. The long queues at the airport were uploaded to social networks and high density was observed.
Meanwhile at Ben Gurion Airport: Density in line for the Exceptions Committee for returnees from abroad@sharonidan pic.twitter.com/u3vIjdLaBT
– News here (@kann_news) December 28, 2020
Despite this, after assessing the situation of the Minister of Defense with the professionals in the defense system, Ganz announced that the Ministry of Defense’s “Wings of Force” layout as presented in the Corona Cabinet should be returned immediately, adapting to the new reality of isolation from all countries. According to this outline, anyone who returns to Israel and agrees to undergo a corona examination at the airport will be referred for home isolation, accompanied and assisted by the project representative in his locality of residence. Ganz argued that he would not support the cabinet in extending the isolation in hotels.