The new regulations come after a day of rough debate inside the closet about whether or not to allow the closure of anti-government protests, with the Kakhol party lauding insisting that a government cannot order the dissolution of the protests that oppose it. prayer meetings, with the Haredi Shas and United Torah Judaism parties pushing to leave synagogues open, even though new limits are imposed on the number of faithful.
Under a final commitment reached on Wednesday night, synagogues will close from Friday, open with limited capacity 25 hours after the Yom Kippur holiday and then close again on Monday night. A similar engagement was reached on the protests, in which protesters can gather within one kilometer (0. 6 miles) of their homes. For prayers and demonstrations, outdoor meetings cannot come with more than 20 people at a time, which must remain two metres away.
A special compromise was reached allowing protests to continue outdoors at the prime minister’s apartment on Balfour Street in Jerusalem, where protesters have been gathering for months to call for Netanyahu’s resignation.
The engagement was reached after a phone call Wednesday night between Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz as he returned to Israel after a stopover in the United States.
A team of police, the Ministry of Health and the attorney general’s workplace has developed a framework for up to 2,000 protesters to participate in the Balfour Street protests. As with prayer meetings and demonstrations in other parts of the country, they will be divided into “capsules” of 20 other people and will remain two metres from one component. All Balfour protesters will have to live less than a kilometre from the site in central Jerusalem.
While ministers briefly point to a “national emergency” to circumvent the Knesset and impose higher restrictions, the new restrictions are expected to be presented to the Knesset plenary for approval on Thursday. Allow one-kilometre restricted people to attend their homes.
The firm’s final resolution was criticized in both Likud and Kakhol lavan.
Finance Minister Israel Katz of Likud has criticized the closure of almost all economic activity for two weeks, a resolution that contradicts the recommendations of last week’s Ministry of Finance. Katz is one of the few ministers to vote against the closure of the closet.
“It is imaginable to take steps to involve the disease without seriously harming factories and companies in the personal sector, which are not open to the public and that make some compliance with Ministry of Health standards,” he said after the cabinet vote. . ” Israel’s economic resilience is a component of its national resilience; it will also have to be protected. “
Science Minister Yizhar Shai of Kakhol lavan left the closet assembly to protest, leaving a written vote against the decision. Shanghai also opposed the radical closure of the economy, which it said contradicted the level’s recommendations.
The governor of the Bank of Israel, Amir Yaron, also protested the final resolution for causing too much damage to the economy, as did the tsar of the coronavirus government, Ronni Gamzu, who allegedly told ministers that he had 50% relief in economic activity, not the complete blockade eventually. voted through ministers.
Some senior government officials accused Netanyahu of seeking total economic unemployment as a means of ending the protests against him, after Kakhol lavan said he would only end the protests if the stage required all other public activities to prevent it as well.
The resolution “may contradict the recommendations of professionals for political reasons,” Chancellor Gabi Ashkenazi of Kakhol lavan protested Wednesday night. “A full lock is our last option, you intend to “resolve “protests”.
The Black Flags organization that organized some of the anti-government protests issued a saying that would conform to the new restrictions, while accusing Netanyahu of the new closure.
“It’s a complicated hour for the rest of the people of Israel. The country is sinking into an abyss due to Netanyahu’s endless failures,” the organization said. “He is guilty of the greatest failure in the history of the country. “
Officials advocated closure, saying past measures had not involved the virus, in part because of the low level of compliance with government standards.
The IDF Internal Front Command, which is building the national touch search and epidemiological research formula that is expected to be implemented in a few weeks to involve infections without repeated stops, said Wednesday that estimates that up to 41% of Israelis require in self-risk regulations have not complied with quarantine regulations.
Similarly, interior minister Aryeh Deri of Shas defended the resolution against the Haredi’s denunciation for the relief of meetings in the synagogue, explaining that “many people in poor health, many other people who did not know they were in poor health came here to the synagogue in Rosh Hashaná [over the weekend], and inflamed many of those who are now in poor health.
In statements to Haredi Radio station Kol Hai, Deri said the company had noticed “very misleading figures and heard the scariest predictions from doctors. “
According to the latest figures from the Ministry of Health, 54364 more people gained the effects of the tests on Wednesday and 6808 were shown as carriers of the coronavirus, this was the time on the day in a row with more than 6,000 cases of coronavirus, and officials expressed specific fear about the confirmation rate of 12. 4%. The Assistant Director General of the Ministry of Health, Itamar Grotto, told lawmakers last week that restrictions will only rise when the rate drops below 7%.