Tonight (Monday), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a follow-up discussion on the Corona issue. The discussion was also attended by Defense Minister Bnei Gantz, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, Education Minister Yoav Galant, Tourism Minister Orit Farkash-Hacohen, National Security Council Chairman Meir Ben Shabbat and other senior officials from the Ministry of Health.
After yesterday the government failed to reach agreements on the opening of education, today the ministers together with the prime minister came to the decision that at this stage, the schools and classrooms will not be opened. The participants in the discussion agreed that the consultations on the subject would continue.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks on the date of the closure. Photo: Prime Minister’s Office
Netanyahu referred earlier today to the opening of the education system and explained that it would be done in a careful and gradual manner, since the security margin is limited. “We are under attack by the British mutation that works fast, almost 100% of those infected, it hurts young people and children. We have to open up, but the program has changed and it must change, we open very carefully education, only in some places, then trade and then culture.” Said the Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, before the cabinet meeting held yesterday, and after a consultation between the Minister of Education and the Prime Minister, it was decided that the education system will not open tomorrow, for good. This, after it was indicated that the schools and kindergartens would reopen on the specified date. The possibility that the frameworks will return to activity only on Wednesday, if at all, is currently being examined. The consultation was also attended by the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Health and experts from the Ministry of Health and was concerned with the spread of the British mutation and its consequences. After the decision the consultations on the subject will continue.