Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Responded today (Thursday) to the request of the Minister of Defense, Bnei Gantz, Prioritize teaching staff in administering vaccines. Data from the Ministry of Education published last night, regarding the data on morbidity in the education system, showed that 14,293 students are ill in the entire education system. In addition, there are 2,465 sick teaching staff, out of about 180,000 teaching staff in total.
According to reports, the agreement made between the Minister of Health July Edelstein To the Chairman of the Education Committee, Loud abundance, Stipulated that the quarantine regulations on the education system will be approved if they begin to prioritize the provision of vaccines to teaching staff throughout the country, during the quarantine.
During the week, the Education, Culture and Sports Committee convened to discuss the policy of opening the education system and monitoring the implementation of enforcement, morbidity data and psychological consequences. Following this, the Secretary General of the Teachers’ Union, Yaffa Ben David, Threatened to shut down the education system on January 12, if teaching staff were not vaccinated: “I have heard many professors, there is no one who does not think teachers should be vaccinated immediately.
Secretary of the Teachers’ Union, Yaffa Ben-David, in protest of teaching staff (Photo: Avshalom Shashoni)However, the teachers’ union said that “the planned strike for Tuesday will take place until all special education teachers who wish to do so are vaccinated immediately. As long as teaching staff are not actually vaccinated, the labor dispute remains in effect. When all teaching staff are vaccinated we will be blessed for the execution and not for the decision. Distance learning continues as usual. “
In response to Netanyahu’s decision, from the “Tikva Hadasha” party, it was stated: Hopefully next time the zigzag government will make the right decisions in time“.