Students are tested in matriculation about six months ago
(Photo: Moti Kimhi )
In cities where schooling will resume, first and second grades are expected to return to regular study, but third and fourth grades will return to study in capsules.
According to the amendment to the outline proposed by Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, the vaccination rate of each authority will be determined once a week. Also, the established inter-ministerial staff may determine for areas within a particular authority – a neighborhood or several neighborhoods from the city, a locality within a regional council – to be defined as areas where the rate of immunization differs from the rate in the entire authority.
At least for now, the list of orange cities where it will be possible to resume studies according to the new outline is much smaller than the list of orange cities where they will continue to study in Zoom.
The orange cities where the current traffic light score is 6.5 at most are Ramat Gan, Raanana, Ness Ziona, Carmiel, Sakhnin, Tirat Carmel, Migdal Haemek, Kiryat Motzkin, Kiryat Yam, Kfar Yona, Givat Shmuel and Umm al-Fahm. However, only in cities where the rate of vaccinators aged 50 and over is higher than 70% will it be possible to study in kindergartens, grades 1-4 and grades 11-12. This figure, of the rate of vaccinators aged 50 and over, does not appear on the website of the Ministry of Health.
Tel Aviv, whose traffic light score is 6.8, is among the orange cities that remain outside the outline for the time being. However, due to the division of the neighborhoods according to the colors of the traffic light, in neighborhoods where the score is at most 6.5 and the rate of vaccinators aged 50 and over is higher than 70%, it will be possible to resume studies.
Children in outdoor activities in Raanana. According to the traffic light – they will return to study
(Photo: Raanana Municipality)
Immunization complex in Hod Hasharon. Students will stay home
(Photo: EPA)
Other orange cities that currently remain outside the outline (their traffic light score is between 6.6 and 7.5) are Beer Sheva, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Petah Tikva, Holon, Rishon Lezion, Netanya, Rehovot, Tiberias, Or Yehuda, Eilat, Kiryat Ata, Tamra, Rosh HaAyin, Or Akiva, Kiryat Bialik, Yokneam Illit, Nahariya, Hod Hasharon, Nazareth, Dimona, Modi’in-Maccabim-Reut, Hadera, Shefar’am, Afula and Maalot Tarshiha.
The yellow cities in Israel, where it will also be possible to study in kindergartens and in some sections of the schools, are Haifa, Givatayim, Nesher, Rahat, Tira, Ramat Hasharon, Herzliya, Yehud, Kfar Saba, Kiryat Ono and Nof Hagalil. There are currently no green cities in Israel at all. Red cities, of course, there are quite a few – and in them will continue to study only zoom, both in kindergartens and schools.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Minister of Health visited the Clalit HMO branch in Zarzir. Netanyahu noted that “we will issue green passports and we will be able to gradually open up the various areas of life. First education and then other areas.” According to him, the green mark will be the vaccine incentives.
Netanyahu visits a vaccine complex against Corona in Zarzir
“We’ve looked at incentives and one of them will surely be the green light so people can go to a variety of places – cafes, museums, cinemas, sporting events, hotels and more. We’re looking at more incentives, there are legal questions we’re trying to overcome.”
“We are a country of vaccines, we can vaccinate every citizen very quickly,” Netanyahu said. “What keeps us from doing this right now is not supply – we have a supply of millions of vaccines and we have fantastic medical teams – the only thing currently preventing the completion of this move is the Pike News and malicious superstitions being planted in public, on the internet.”
Netanyahu at the vaccination center in Zarzir
(Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, GPO )
Ganz in the Ahiezer vaccination compound
(Photo: Roi Rubinstein)
Bnei Gantz in the vaccination compound in Moshav Ahiezer
(Photo: Barel Ephraim)
Deputy Prime Minister Bnei Gantz, who visited the vaccinated compound in Moshav Ahiezer, where even housebound people can be vaccinated by ambulances, said that “until the virus disappears, all efforts must continue, both in the field of assistance and in isolation for those who need it and in the field of vaccines. “Green – a green sign will be the certificate with which a person walks around like a driver’s license. Whoever gets vaccinated will go out with a vaccinated certificate and enter all sorts of places, there will be no other way.”
“We will move forward and make a responsible opening, with a first stop on the subject of education and we will insist that we make a green daughter opening,” Ganz added. “Those who get vaccinated will get a green card and will be able to live a normal economic life and those who do not will have to wait for better days. This is what needs to be done and this is how we can open up the economy.”