“It’s fair!” Eti Avishai, a 64-year-old seamstress, lamented hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Friday the start of a three-week closing.
“Didn’t they prevent giant meetings in synagogues, weddings and other events, and now I can’t spend the holidays with my children and grandchildren anymore?” he added.
Prevention will be implemented a few hours before the start of the Jewish New Year and the wonderful feasts, which also come with the day of the Atonement and Sucot.
While Israelis have largely accepted the strict blockade imposed at the start of the pandemic in March, many are frustrated this time by the way the fitness crisis has been dealt with since the reopening of business and schools in May.
“Instead of strictly enforcing regulations and systematically punishing those who do not wear masks or who have organized meetings of many people, they are punishing us all collectively,” said Barak Yeivin, 56, director of the Jerusalem Conservatory of Music and Dance. .
Although weddings and other occasions were allowed during the summer, there have been reports that Israelis are exceeding number limits and violating other fitness standards.
Yeivin said the timing is a “real disaster” for educational establishments like his conservatory, as September marks the beginning of the educational year.
Mental health
According to an AFP count over the past two weeks, Israel is just one time for Bahrain for the rate of coronavirus infection worldwide.
Israel recorded 156,823 cases with 1,126 deaths out of a population of nine million.
Authorities continued the start of the previous school year this month at all, but some places where infection rates are high.
Last week, the government imposed a curfew on 40 cities and high-risk neighborhoods, the vast majority of Arab or ultra-Orthodox communities.
The measures failed to curb the coronavirus, and Netanyahu warned Sunday that fitness officials had “waved the red flag” on tension in hospitals.
Rumors about food shortages are already spreading in the spring, manager Haya Amgar said her supermarket was well stocked.
“We’re not short of anything, there are eggs, toilet paper (and) coronavirus products” like masks,” he said. “I’m ready. “
“There are more people this morning. It’s hard to tell if it’s for the holidays or the lockdown,” he told the AFP.
Supporters of the new government measures argue that the economic effect will be limited due to the numerous holidays.
But the damage the blockage can have on intellectual fitness is largely related.
“I see many other people who order sleeping products and oppose anxiety,” Yoram Poplinger, 61, said at a pharmacy in downtown Jerusalem.
Judith Touati, a 34-year-old social worker, said closure would be difficult for the elderly.
“I am the threat to the elders sitting at the table with many people, but is it greater to let them die alone?” he said.
Rivka Vaknin, 70, said she was “very depressed” about being alone on vacation.