The ministers decided last night (Sunday) on a compromise of extending the placements after Corona patients by two weeks, and scheduling another discussion after the election with the aim of stopping the use. This, during a follow-up hearing of a sitting that was stopped in the middle of the morning and at the request of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit.
As mentioned, at the center of the discussion was the manner in which the placements were used, which according to the ministers’ decision would be of relatively limited use – in cases where patients reported less than five contacts or could not be contacted or epidemiologically investigated.
It was also decided that the operation of GSS locators would be stopped altogether below the threshold of 1,000 patients per day, or when the GSS ‘exclusive contribution to locating patients would fall below 5% for three weeks.
“If you want to extend by three weeks and in the meantime decide – what good. The controversy is that we have been given an ultimatum to extend by a week,” he said. “In management, one of the most important things is priority. I do not intend to send the public health and legal advisers to the Knesset every other day, in front of all kinds of geniuses who will talk to them about democracy and things like that. .
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Location notice from the Ministry of Health (Photo: Ministry of Health)During the meeting, Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen asked for an extension of the use of the tool, and Minister Tamano Sheta objected: “This is an invasive tool, the use must be stopped.” In addition, Kish claimed that the High Court had castrated the law and that, to a limited extent, the placements were ineffective. Edelstein sharply criticized those who opposed extending GSS placements and called them “geniuses who talk about democracy.”