Without driving lessons and beauty treatments: The government approved the third closure regulations

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Cabinet ministers today (Friday) approved by telephone vote the closure regulations that will begin on Sunday at 5 p.m. The regulations set restrictions on staying in public space, restrictions on traffic and restrictions on commercial, recreational and leisure activities. The closure will apply for two weeks and will be extended for another two weeks unless the goal is achieved – the daily number of infections is less than a thousand and the infection coefficient is less than one.

Director General of the Ministry of Health: “The closure may last more than two weeks” // Photo: GPO

The regulations restrict traffic to a distance of one kilometer from home, except for 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 separated parents, going to a work place or educational setting, and going out for funerals. At a wedding or alliance (subject to the crowd limit). Each such violation will result in a fine of NIS 500.

Among other things, it was determined that nature reserves will be closed and training will only be allowed for professional athletes. It will also be banned that he was in another person’s residence, and public places and shops will be closed – except for essential businesses such as food, hygiene, optics, pharmacy, electrical products and products needed for essential repairs in the house. Driving lessons and organized trips will be canceled.

Exiting the house will be prohibited except in exceptional cases // Photo: Herzl Shapira

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.

The national parks will also close. Caesarea National Park

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 vocational education or training for adults for online learning from it for students in need.

The Corona Ministerial Committee also ruled that until January 9, 2021, workplaces employing more than 10 workers would not be able to allow simultaneous stay of workers at a rate exceeding 50% of the workforce, or 10 workers, whichever is higher, with a few exceptions: Work that provides essential services, enterprises for the provision of subsistence services, enterprises with a special permit to employ a worker during rest hours and workplaces engaged in construction or infrastructure works, defense industry and security support enterprises (to which other restrictions will apply). Beyond the aforesaid limitation, the employer will be required to continue to meet the conditions of the purple mark.

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