“We are running tirelessly to make Bat Yam a ‘green’ city, in cooperation with all stakeholders and other people in the city. On the beach, it’s to keep your distance and we don’t require other people to wear masks,” Mayor Zvika Brut said, according to news website Ynet. “We will not allow any threat to our citizens due to the overcrowding caused by the arrival of guests.”
According to the report, the police and municipal inspectors were to be stationed in front of the separate beach, with the aim of preventing access to the rented buses.
A vote on Professor Ronni Gamzu’s proposal for the coronavirus tsar to involve the COVID-19 pandemic was postponed on Thursday, following a tense assembly of the so-called coronavirus cabinet.
The Twelfth Channel reported that the proposed regulations set a limit to move more than 500 meters from the house in “red” spaces where infection rates were high; Limit meetings to an immediate circle of family members who close the school system, for special education; and the closure of the maximum of the public transport system.
In other areas, the steps would come with the closing of the purchase of grocery stores, markets, interior dinners in restaurants, events, exhibitions and tourism. The schooling formula would be open to third grade and under formulas and special education. Attendance at workers’ offices in personal enterprises would be limited to 30% of their capacity, according to the report.
The goal of the plan is the infection rate of 400 new cases shown to be compatible with the day in 4 weeks. If the infection rate is not reduced on September 10, new restrictions will take effect from Rosh Hashaná from September 18 to October 11, after Sucot’s holiday.
Ultra-Orthodox ministers Aryeh Deri and Yaakov Litzman led the opposition to the plan, saying it would save him prayers in synagogues, according to leaks reported through the Hebrew media.
The assembly marked the third time Gamzu’s “signal light” plan from the coronavirus cabinet and did not approve it. The next discussion of the proposal will take place on Monday.
After the meeting, Gamzu said: “Cabinet ministers spoke in favor of the plan and avoid closure.”
Infection rates remain high amid fears that network prayers and family circle meetings, Rosh Hashaná’s vacation, Yom Kippur and Succot, may cause a further increase.
Netanyahu and National Security Council chief Meir Ben-Shabbat were pushing for a full national shutdown in the coming weeks, while Gamzu expressed reservations, Walla’s news reported Thursday, bringing in ministers and senior officials.
In the first wave of infections in March and April, Netanyahu imposed a long national blockade with the then Director General of the Ministry of Health, Moshe Bar Siman-Tov.
The move has been a success in reducing cases, but has been accompanied by historic economic damage.
The government’s inability to identify an effective contact detection and search formula means that infections have temporarily become uncontrollable once the blockade was lifted. Since then, many ministers have strongly opposed closures.
Gamzu has openly opposed radical blockades, favoring localized restrictions on epidemic hot spots. But this policy has been approved through the coronavirus cabinet to date.
“It’s a smart plan, but it’s not transparent if it’s feasible,” Walla said, citing an anonymous senior minister. “Israel is a small country and I’m not sure we can make a difference between the other regions.”