Starting next week, the number of people coming in each day in Israel will be reduced to just 200 – with the exception of some humanitarian issues – while the government scrambled Monday to find an alternative sought for state-run isolation hotels in an effort to prevent new coronavirus infusions into the country through Ben Gurion Airport.
The decision came at the request of the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee to present an alternative to the current bill which expires Tuesday at midnight.
Although the committee agreed to extend the bill by a further 24 hours, committee chairman MK Yaakov Asher (United Torah Judaism) said “the police can enforce home isolation more effectively. We need to find a way to implement it with human consent, perhaps through cell detection. ”
The Ministry of Transport said this warning would remain in place “until a technical solution and / or isolation is found in hotels to ensure that entrants separate themselves as required.
The ministry also called on Israelis who plan to leave the country in the coming days to reconsider the necessity of their visit.
Currently tens of thousands of Israelis have gone abroad as all commercial trips in and out of the country have gone down and boarding a special rescue trip requires permission from committee exceptions irrigated daily with thousands of applications.
Dozens of travelers who returned to Israel on Sunday said they found themselves forced by police to be alone in hotels.
According to Aliza, one of the passengers at the scene, one passenger said he had been vaccinated against COVID-19 during his time in the US and asked for documents a show that could be free from separating itself in a hotel. Police officers refused to review his documents and were dragged by a force outside the airport building.
“It’s infuriating that there’s no one to talk to,” said Aliza, who was also admitted to a quarantine hotel. “The cops could be polite and explain to him that there was no other option, but the first thing they did was silence him and dragged him out with a force. “
Another passenger said he saw police “roasting at people, including women and little girls.”
“There was a woman who was crying on the phone and instead of showing a sigh of sympathy – the policeman shouted at her and threatened to drag her with force,” he said.
A police statement in response said officers were acting in accordance with government regulations.