The police will significantly increase surveillance and enforcement activities across the country and will work to enforce regulations and restrictions to protect public health as part of the national fight to curb the spread of the corona virus, in accordance with regulations and restrictions that will take effect tomorrow ahead of Purim.
Starting tomorrow evening and over the weekend, traffic police officers will deploy 24 checkpoints nationwide, which will operate from 8pm until the morning hours every day (Thursday, Friday, Saturday).
The activity of the checkpoints will be carried out on the interurban arteries leading to the cities, which have created a sequence of barriers between the urban and interurban area, in order to assist in carrying out the national task and realizing the purpose of regulations and maintaining public peace. Alongside the checkpoints, hundreds of vehicles and police officers will operate during the closing hours, conducting searches on all the arteries around the country, while skipping blockades to locate civilians who will not act in accordance with the regulations.
The places where checkpoints will be set up at the night curfew on Purim (Photo: Police Spokeswoman)The police call on the public to “obey the instructions” and ask “to avoid an unnecessary meeting with the police, so that we can all maintain the health of all citizens of the State of Israel.”