Live: The Constitution Committee discusses the quarantine regulations

Discussion of the Constitution Committee // Photo: Knesset Channel

The regulations set restrictions on staying in public space, restrictions on traffic and restrictions on commercial, recreational and leisure activities. The closure will last for two weeks and will be extended for another two weeks, unless there is a decrease in the daily number of verified persons of at least one thousand and a decrease in the coefficient of infection, which will be less than 1.
As part of the regulations, traffic will be restricted to a distance of one kilometer from home, with a few exceptions: going out to get vaccinated, medical or social care, demonstration, legal proceedings, going out for sports activities, transferring a minor between His estranged parents, Leaving for a place of work or an educational setting whose activities are permitted, and leaving for the purpose of attending a funeral, wedding or alliance (subject to the crowd limit). Each such violation will result in a fine of NIS 500.

Accommodation units and B & Bs, a zoo, a nature reserve safari, national parks, national sites and memorial sites will also be closed; A place to provide non-medical treatment, including a hairdresser and a place to provide beauty and cosmetic treatments, a place to provide complementary medicine treatment, a drive to watch movies, a mall or a retail market and a museum. In addition, the possibility of self-collection from places selling food will be eliminated.

Discussion of the Constitution Committee, September // Photo: Jonathan Samia, Spokeswoman for the Knesset

The early childhood frameworks, grades 1-4 and 11-12 will operate as usual, while grades 5-10 will learn from a distance. Prohibitions include open-air activities, trips, practical studies or vocational training for adults, and activities of youth movements. There will continue to be activities for students in special education and for dropout and at-risk youth, as well as boarding schools, studies in immigrant classes and access to an institution of education or vocational training for adults for online learning from it for students in need..

About 6,000 police officers and more than 300 checkpoints Will be deployed with the aim of enforcing the closure restrictions. On intercity roads, 21 checkpoints will be set up in random places to divert traffic, but from 18:00 daily until midnight, more than 300 permanent checkpoints will be set up on roads throughout the country.

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