Nathan Jeffay is the Times of Israel’s health and science correspondent
He is a master of theatrical devices to convey his point of view. If you had blown or pumped smoke through a face mask to illustrate how well it blocks the drops coming out of your mouth, wouldn’t you have sought to see the clip?He would have appeared in every newspaper and news site, and he would have a lesson that no one could have ignored.
Beyond Netanyahu’s leadership problems, there is an obvious challenge with the symbol of who is in charge: they are at most exclusively men. The top prominent woman, Siegal Sadetsky, head of public fitness at the Ministry of Health, resigned in July saying Israel was on a “dangerous” path.
Israel might think that maintaining a male elite remains appropriate for defense, but this is not just a crisis that is shaking up society within it. In this pandemic, leaders will have to motivate others to live differently and force their youth to commands weigh heavily on women, especially since it is still the norm in Israeli society for mothers to play a more vital role in childcare than parents.
The existing configuration gives the impression that men are setting the rules. It’s a failure. To maximize the sense of motivation in a fight in which men and women interact together, we want both sexes to play a leadership role at the top.
The epic early failure to integrate Haredi communities with precautions of social estating, which contributed to their disproportionately higher levels of virus, also reflects a fiasco in representative leadership.
The fact that Israel had a Haredi Health Minister, Yaakov Litzman, at the beginning of the crisis may have been simply auspicious. With Litzman’s intelligent attitude, the collaborative attitude of his closet colleagues, and intelligent thinking in his ministry, he may have simply made sure that the obligatory messages came to his community. Any concept of a clash between aptitude priorities and a faith that attributes the maximum price to human life can have been avoided.
But Litzman was distracted by sectarian interests, lost credibility after allegedly disobeying his own ministry’s regulations on indoor prayer and infected facilities, and resigned in April.
Litzman is not the right user for publication, however, Israel desperately desires other high-level Haredi voices concerned about the most sensitive of the fight against the virus, whether internal or external to the government. This is especially true today, when COVID- The 19th is widespread in the Haredi network and virus tsar Ronni Gamzu has shown that he wants recommendation in his international relations there, having acted like a bull in a porcelain shop with commentary on a high-ranking rabbi.
Israel wants intelligent personalities capable of moving the discussion away from sectarian arguments and achieving the unusual intelligence of the Haredim and Israeli society at large.
Overall, the reopening story in May is one of the most frustrating facets of the coronavirus festival in Israel. Suddenly, the maximum of everything, the addition of giant marriages, was allowed.
The pain was felt not only in the growing rates of infection, but also psychologically, in the attitude of the nation. We kept talking about the virus and intended to wear masks, but in our heads, the victory won and we went back to business. Netanyahu, after all, had encouraged us to faint and have fun, “and go back to life in general. “
From that moment on, the new limits proved very difficult to accept: the government stopped confineing others in the houses and opened schools, with strict pills, but left the maximum of the other restrictions in place.
Psychologically, we would have been in phase II of the struggle, running to show that the country can succeed even with liberalized regulations, and show that other setbacks are possible, on the other hand, already celebrating victory over the virus, we were allowed to do almost everything we wanted, and we came to that restored regulations would now be a tax that we deserve not to have to face , especially given the staggering economic consequences of the resumption of restrictions.
The government not only needed to better manage the reopening, it also needed a more elaborate overall plan for respite between the waves. The era of calm after the first wave reigned through complacency and navel in the leaders’ component, rather than making strategic plans and preparing for the ongoing struggle, which many worry will only become more complicated when the colder weather arrives.
Surprisingly, the “emerging nation” that sells generation to everyone did not rush to get an accurate civilian mobile phone app to warn others if they had been close to an operator, as a more effective and less debatable option for surveillance through security services. This app will not be available until July.
Post-first wave respite has also been used to call a coronavirus tsar, preferably on the first day of combat aspects opposed to the virus. Many of your steps take time and there are still not enough professionals to investigate to make sure other people who have met a carrier are quarantined.
The moment of calm after the first wave ruled through complacency and navel
Gamzu deserved to settle down at the end of April, when the country was winning, to prepare for the difficult situations ahead. His paintings are 3 months of what he deserves to be.
Today, Israel is in better shape to have it, but the apparent steps are still being overlooked: The school was restarted a week ago and teachers are dropping like flies, appearing to be positive for the coronavirus and sending many other members into quarantine.
Why was there no general controls for teachers before returning to school?Even if this meant that schools had had to stagger their start dates for the control formula to manage capacity, it would have been valuable.
Teachers’ fear of spreading the virus is very real, but angry teachers also have a domino effect that causes young people to be sent home, study rooms to be closed, and parents have difficulty working, a few days after the long summer vacation. and there is a shortage of replacement teachers.
Constant verification is unrealistic, however, a general verification for teachers before school is withdrawn would have made it imaginable to put things in a better position.
One of the hottest questions is whether we have learned from the mistakes of the past.
Watching Gamzu talk most of the time, it’s easy to conclude that yes, or at least, if politicians pay attention to him, avoid slander him and don’t identify him as a falling guy, we’ll have done it.
But looking, with a hunch, Uman, a more pessimistic conclusion emerges.
In May, researchers at Tel Aviv University found that seven out of ten Israelis who had stuck the virus to date were inflamed with a haplotype, a variant, that had arrived in the country from the United States. in the forced quarantine of newcomers, and the study scientist, Adi Stern, said the figure may reflect poor application of U. S. flights in particular.
The government is aware of the danger of transmission of the virus and also the risks of mass concentrations, however, it is now likely, due to strong political pressure, to its insistence that there be no pilgrimages from Israel to the Ukrainian city of Ouman for Rosh Hashaná: Plans are reportedly being made to allow between 5,000 and 7,500 pilgrims to make the journey.
Regardless of the regulations or pills that are officially implemented, the truth on the floor will lead to the transmission of the virus, and there is an intelligent possibility that the instances will be brought back to Israel. Will the house really be controlled according to strict precautions?
If other people recover Ouman’s infection and spread it among friends, circles of relatives, and communities, we’ll temporarily begin to see the impact. Yom Kippur may turn out to be a day of bitter judgment for the government’s resolution on coronavirus.