The Times of Israel published Wednesday’s progress as they unfolded.
Education Minister Yoav Gallant said schools would open in September in strict situations to prevent the spread of the virus.
According to the Ministry of Education plan, in-person classes, adding kindergartens and kindergartens and the best schools, will be limited to 18 students. Most academics will be reported a few times online.
“We need to put ‘half courses’ into effect,” Gallant told reporters. “We plan to preemptively open the school year in this way. This means that those who will largely abandon their [physical] presence in school will be the elder scholars, and those who will come are the scholars whose presence in the school is essential for the economy,” he continues, referring. young people who can’t stay home alone while their parents are at work.
He says all academics will come at least once a week.
Schools closed in mid-March, however, almost all categories were allowed to return to may week, a resolution that some policymakers attributed to the virus’s resurgence. The government took strong action against the main school categories at the end of the school year, but has taken few steps to close or restrict schools since then, allowing summer school to continue for declining categories.
Israeli universities elect a new chairman of the Committee of University Directors, after the previous official resigned in protest at policy.
Professor Asher Cohen, president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will be the role.
His predecessor, Ron Robin, resigned by comparing government trends in Israel with those of Turkey.
“We are witnessing attempts to restore science in Israel, which aim to intimidate, weaken, censor and allow political interests to dictate the curriculum,” Robin wrote in a letter to academics and professors at the University of Haifa, where he works. as president on Tuesday. “There is a transparent and rapid danger to the State of Israel and to our long term for all of us,” he added.
Robin said his resignation resolution followed a series of measures taken through Higher Education Minister Zeev Elkin, whose most serious resolution was not to retain Michal Neumann as head of the Higher Education Council. Neumann succeeded Matanyahu Englman six months ago when he appointed the state comptroller. His term ends this week.
Robin stated that Elkin’s resolve to get rid of Neumann was due to the intentions of weakening the independence of the Higher Education Council, “the saint of the saints whose role is to be the critical buffer between politics and science.”
Cohen applauded Robin’s protest, calling it “not brave.”
Elkin has a position that was created when the existing government was formed earlier this year, taking away the duty of the Minister of Education and the Minister for Environmental Protection (Elkin is also the Minister of Water).
Since taking office, he has clashed with HEC members for his prevention of campus screenings amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection announces that it will grant 10.6 million shekels ($3 million) to the government across the Mediterranean and the Red Sea that are ready to amend its statutes to prohibit the use of single-use plastic on beaches and hide stretches of sea where bathing is officially permitted.
The sums for each local authority will be decided along the unofficial coast.
Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel said more than 71% of beaches controlled through the ministry at the present time of last month’s component as a component of the Clean Beach Index were declared blank or very blank. The most blank were in Ashdod, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Bat Yam, Acre and the Hof Hasharon north of Tel Aviv.
– Sue Surkes
Employment reports that the number of unemployed Israelis is increasing, surpassing 21% with 853,843 unemployed.
Of these, 575,163 placed on unpaid leave in the middle of the pandemic.
The two protesters who stopped the demonstration outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s apartment on Tuesday have been released, according to army radio.
Police said Tuesday that a police officer was slightly injured and 50 protesters were arrested after clashes at the demonstration.
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority is filing a civil lawsuit of 295,000 NIS ($85,000) with the Beersheba District Court in southern Israel in opposition to the state-owned Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company for damage to corals through infrastructure work, of which she and others were convicted in a sinvergenza case in February.
More than 2,600 corals were plucked from the southern coastal town of Eilat, adding 665 of about 50 years and whose rehabilitation, according to INPA, would take many years.
He also documented the damage done to many creatures whose lives feature corals, fish and invertebrates.
– Sue Surkes
A fireplace was lit in the Enot Telem and Halilim Stream nature parks, between Jerusalem and Mevasseret Zion, northwest of the city.
Firefighters and the Israel Parks and Conservation Authority are looking to extinguish the fire, which has been under control lately.
The public is asked to stay away from the next few hours.
– Sue Surkes
A security guard at the Knesset COVID-19.
An epidemiological investigation has been initiated into his contacts, according to reports.
The launch of a Mars orbiter from the United Arab Emirates, already delayed by two days, is still postponed due to the weather at the Japanese launch site.
The orbiter called Amal, or Hope, is the first interplanetary project in the Arab world. The launch, originally scheduled for Wednesday from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan, had already been postponed until Friday. It is delayed Wednesday until an unspecified date, said Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the supplier of the H-IIA rocket.
The UAE project team said on Twitter that the launch would take position in late July. Mitsubishi said it announces launches at least two days ahead of schedule.
Mitsubishi launch official Keiji Suzuki said earlier this week that a postponement was possible because intermittent lightning and rain were forecast over the next few days.
Heavy rains fell for more than a week in giant portions of Japan, causing landslides and flooding on the southern island of Kyushu.
The hope is to succeed on Mars in February 2021, the year the UAE celebrates the 50th year of its formation. A successful Hope project would be a major milestone for the long-term oil-dependent economy in space.
Hope uses 3 tools to examine the upper environment and monitor climate replacement and will have to surround the red planet for at least two years. The United Arab Emirates says it will provide a complete view of the Martian environment in the other seasons for the first time.
Two more projects are planned for Mars in the coming days across the United States and China. Japan has its own project for the Martian moon scheduled for 2024.
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A Likud minister anonymously lasts a proposal to reimpose a national blockade to quell the coronavirus epidemic.
“The number of new patients has more or less remained in the same place, and we can assume that in the coming days it will decrease, so what does this chutzpah communicate about a lockup? It is, by definition, the destruction of the economy,” Netanyahu’s party minister told the Twelfth Channel.
“We were there before … companies are collapsing. How can you think it’s moderate to communicate about a blockage? And let’s say there’s a blockage, in two weeks, they’re going to open everything up, and there’ll be infections in the back. We want to teach the public how to live next to the coronavirus. A lock that reduces infections is not a victory, it is a capitulation,” Likud’s minister said.
A minister in the Kakhol lavender coalition, who spoke under anonymity, echoed this sentiment.
“We still have a few days to see the knowledge and if the trend changes,” the minister says. “We want to repair the public’s trust and a blockade will only break it even more. As long as we can do a chorus to enforce a blockade, we’ll have to hold back.”
Residents of communities close to the Maale Adumim agreement in the West Bank near Jerusalem are asking the High Court to consider a high transients for plans to build a waste incineration plant in a known as the Good Samaritan.
The population needs to force the civil administration of Judea and Samaria, which governs Maale Adumim, as well as the council of Maale Adumim and the finance and environmental ministries, how they can build a factory before zoning the land.
More stringent would come with the zoning of a waste incinerator.
The allocation has already been moved to the initial level of the bidding process. The civil administration has replaced the zoning of the site, reserved years ago for the landfill, which also means that no public consultation has been held.
The sites of 3 other waste incineration plants in the center of the country, necessarily all of which will be built, were approved in may through the National Planning Council.
One of the first acts of Israel’s newly appointed Minister for Environmental Protection, Gila Gamliel, to temporarily freeze the ministry’s policy, adding measures to build incineration plants, so that it can conduct a review.
– Sue Surkes
The new coronavirus has killed at least 578746 other people since the outbreak began in China last December, according to a count of official resources compiled through AFP at 11:00 GMT on Wednesday.
At least 13,346,550 instances were registered in 196 countries and territories. Of these, at least 7,238,600 are now recovering.
The national government’s AFP-collected awareness and World Health Organization (WHO) data are likely to reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections.
Many countries check for symptomatic cases or maximum severe cases.
The United States is the highest affected country with 136,466 deaths from 3,431,574 cases. At least 1,049,098 other people have been declared recovered.
After the United States, the countries most affected are Brazil with 74133 deaths of 1,926,824 instances, United Kingdom with 44,968 deaths from 291,373 instances, Mexico with 36,327 deaths from 311,486 instances and Italy with 34,984 deaths in 243,344 instances.
China – Hong Kong and Macau – has so far reported 83,611 cases, adding 4,634 deaths and 78,693 cures.
Europe has 203,507 deaths from 2,873,277 cases, Latin America and the Caribbean 149,392 deaths from 3,491,037 infections and the United States and Canada 145,300 deaths from 3,539,951 cases.
Asia reported 45,452 deaths from 1,856,267 instances, the Middle East reported 21,220 deaths from 949,542 instances, Africa 13,735 deaths from 624,406 instances, and Oceania of 12,074 instances.
Due to corrections through the national government or the publication of back-end data, the updated figures in the last 24 hours may not correspond to the previous day’s counts.
– AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemns the racist harassment of a Channel Thirteen journalist through open-air protesters at home.
Avishay Ben Haim described it as a “Moroccan garbage” while covering the demonstration in front of the prime minister’s residence, which was then dismantled by police.
“Yesterday’s shameful attack on left-wing protests against journalist Dr. Avishay Ben Haim, as violence against the police is worthy of conviction,” Netanyahu tweeted. “Shame and shame”.
Thousands of others piled up Tuesday night to ask Netanyahu to resign on his corruption charges, as several separate social protests were taking place across the country at the same time.
Some of the protesters tried to break down security barriers at the scene and clashed with police. At the end of the demonstration, a lot of other people moved to the city center, where they blocked the soft railing, singing “shame, shame” and “Bibi, move home.”
Diplomatic journalist Barak Ravid won an official notification this morning of his removal from Channel 13, breaking his silence at the end.
In a series of tweets, Ravid thanked his followers and said he entertained “several gifts and directions” for the job.
Ravid, among 40 others, was expelled from the station this month, Hebrew media reported.
Host Tali Moreno, veteran meteorologist Danny Roop and political correspondent Akiva Novick were among other big names who were fired. But it was Ravid’s dismissal that raised his eyebrows.
In a statement to the Haaretz newspaper on July 5, the Thirteenth Canal said it was facing a monetary rationalization procedure that forced it to “say goodbye to exceptional professionals.” He said the procedure would continue “within the organization, not outside,” due to confidentiality issues.
An Iranian news company says three ships got stuck in the southern port of Bushehr, according to Reuters.
The chimney fountain is not known through IRNA.
Iran has been the scene of a series of mysterious explosions in weeks, some of which have been attributed to Israel.
– Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) 15 July 2020
Iranian news firm Tasnim now reports that seven ships in Bushehr have been in fire.
There are no reports of casualties at the shipyard in southern Iran.
An Egyptian journalist arrested after the Al Jazeera network has died from the new coronavirus, his daughter confirms, days after his release.
Mohamed Monir, 65, arrested in mid-June and charged with “belonging to a terrorist group, spreading fake news and abusing social media.”
His arrest, widely criticized through human rights groups, came here after he gave the impression on the Qatar-based satellite news channel.
Egypt calls the channel a spokesman for the Banned Muslim Brotherhood, a fee denied through Doha.
Monir was released on July 2, but his daughter Sarah Monir announced on July 7 that he had been hospitalized by COVID-19.
In a Facebook post overdue Monday night, she showed that he had died.
Monir suffered from diabetes, high blood pressure and serious problems at the centre, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, raising Egyptian hounds who asked to remain anonymous.
– AFP
Israel has begun a COVID-19 verification that claims to provide effects in just 15 minutes, Reports Channel 12.
A pilot program at a Lod coronavirus control center asked those conducting viral control to submit the existing method, as well as the FDA-approved Sofia 2 control, according to the television report.
The television report indicates that Israel is lately withholding widespread use of the 15-minute check due to considerations of its accuracy, which raises the FDA’s expedited approval. If researchers analyzing knowledge verify its accuracy, you can simply “change the game,” he says.
Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister’s son, asks Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to investigate threats against him.
“I am receiving threats of physical injury and I am involved in my well-being,” Netanyahu wrote in a letter, asking Mandelblit to ask the government to open an investigation.
The Ministry of Health orders that Israeli HOV avoid coronavirus tests on those who have no symptoms of the virus, with a few exceptions.
People living with a diagnosis of the disease and staff working with high-risk populations (such as nursing homes) can still get tested, even if they don’t have symptoms.
The Ministry of Health’s ordinance also provides fitness professionals with room for manoeuvre, up to 5,000 controls, to verify asymptomatic populations at their discretion.
The order occurs when laboratories complain that they have been passed through testing, which have been more than 20,000 per day.
In a massive infection, 44 high school academics are diagnosed with COVID-19 after two holiday seasons, according to army radio.
The first party was held in Ashkelon earlier this month, and followed through a “later party” 3 days later in Ashdod through the same group, according to the report.
The parties were conducted in violation of Ministry of Health regulations on meetings.
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and Deputy Minister of Health Yoav Kisch visited the COVID-19 control station of lod the day before to practice The pilot control program of Sofia, which returns the effects of the virus in 15 minutes, confirmed the ministry.
Magen doctors David Adom attempted FDA-approved control on patients at the station, in parallel with the same previous COVID-19 controls.
It is known how many of these tests Israel purchased and whether it will meet the country’s general-purpose criteria.
The National Nurses Association announces that it will launch a strike Monday to protest the shortage of labour for the COVID-19 pandemic, which they say is unlikely to continue their work.
Union action will be hospitals, HOV and other medical institutions.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. would ban visas from some workers of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, which Washington will isolate.
“The State Department will impose visa restrictions on some workers from Chinese-generation corporations like Huawei who provide curtains to regimes that interact in human rights violations and abuses,” Pompeo said at a press conference.
– AFP
Public Security Minister Amir Ohana (Likud), who oversees the police, condemns the left-wing protest outside the Prime Minister’s Residence on Tuesday.
“What we saw was anarchy,” he said, calling the protesters “agents of chaos seeking to sow panic and poison in the public.”
Ohana says the “incitement” opposed to former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on the eve of his murder is insignificant for the threats opposed to Netanyahu.
Rabin murdered in 1995 through a right-wing Jewish extremist.
Tuesday night’s rally ended with clashes between police and protesters and 50 protesters arrested. Most have already been released.
Speaking to reporters, Ohana also said she would nominate a candidate for permanent police commissioner within 30 days.
He also condemns police violence against protesters and says the force has “what to fix” to correct the issue.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz warned Israelis that the country could move towards a partial or total blockade to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
In an interview with public broadcaster Kan, an excerpt from which he anticipated, Gantz said: “I need the public to know that there may be a scenario where we will have to move on to a partial or total blockade. Fix/Adjust Restrictions »
He predicts that coronavirus may remain a risk “for a year and a part or more.”
The full interview will be broadcast on Kan’s evening news.
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein says “we are doing everything we can” to avoid a nationwide lockdown.
But he warns that this is an option and that other measures would possibly not be enough.
Edelstein says Israel will fall into a blockade if the government does not act immediately. He says they’ll know in three or four days.
“If there’s a medical miracle” and infection rates drop, “maybe we couldn’t get a blockage,” he says, talking to reporters.
Edelstein also ruled out entrusting the pandemic reaction to the IDF or some other organization, saying, “I am guilty of the event, I have authority and take full responsibility.”
The latest model predicts that the number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States will increase further, even as a study team suggests that near-universal use of the mask can save 40,000 lives until November.
The death toll is 136,000 on Wednesday, however, the country is expected to succeed at 151,000 through August 1 and 157,000 through August 8, based on an average of 23 study teams in the United States and elsewhere.
The figures were published Tuesday through the Reich Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on behalf of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
A week ago, this average predicted 147,000 deaths on August 1.
California, Florida and Texas, the country’s 3 most populous states, will see a thousand more deaths in the next four weeks than in the last four, Professor Nicholas Reich said.
The University of Washington’s IHME style goes further and predicted 224,000 deaths on November 1.
Another, directed through the independent Style Youyang Gu in New York, predicts 227,000 deaths as of November 1.
According to the IHME group, more Americans wear masks and less leave their homes.
The model has access to GPS data through commercial partners.
“If 95% of Americans wore a mask when they left home, that number (of deaths) would be reduced to more than 40,000,” the medium said.
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The Finance Ministry and National Economic Council are fighting over a plan to give stipends to Israeli families amid the pandemic, says a TV report.
According to Channel 13, Avi Simhon of the National Economic Council is a plan of 6 billion shekels ($1.75 billion), which would be distributed to Israeli households.
It provides that couples with a child will get a one-time payment of 2000 NIS ($583), which increases to NIS 2500 ($729) for those with two children and 3,000 NIS ($875) for those with 3 or more. Households without young people will get NIS 750 ($218), according to the report.
But the Finance Department strongly opposes the plan, he says.
Florida reported more than 10,000 new coronaviruses on Wednesday and reached 300,000 infections in total.
Florida has 10,181 cases shown and a total of 301,810 since the outbreak began on March 1. The state has shown 112 deaths, the third time in the last seven days, has eclipsed one hundred, and 4,626 deaths in total through COVID-19.
Florida’s seven-day steady of deaths has risen to a steady day, three times the 31 reported a month ago.
On Tuesday, Florida had the highest mortality rate in the United States, slightly in Texas.
When coronavirus devastated New York City three months ago, it recorded 7 ninenin deaths on April 9 and an average of 763 deaths over seven days on April 14.
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Israel arrests four Palestinians armed with incendiary bombs and an explosive device, which the army says it intends to use to carry out a terrorist attack.
Army says suspects are being arrested outside Nablus in the northern West Bank. Two Molotov cocktails and the bomb were discovered in his possession, according to the Israeli Defense Forces.
The four suspects were handed over to the Shin Bet security service for further investigation.
“The IDF will continue to protect the domain and thwart attempts at terrorist attacks,” the military said.
– Judah Ari Gross
Global inventory markets are raising hopes for a coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday, and the new U.S. monetary stimulus. It adds to the brightest mood.
Optimism arose through the US biotechnology company Modern, saying that the highest level of human trials for a COVID-19 vaccine would begin at the end of the month, after a report said the world-class testing had been a success.
The news follows an announcement through Pfizer and BioNTech that two of the 4 repair applicants had earned the U.S. authorities’ “Fast Track” designation.
European markets were up to two% higher at the close, beating Dow Jones of Wall Street, which withdrew from opening earnings until New York morning.
Providing more was a sign that the United States might simply rise to its stimulus after reports said that the most sensible Republicans were reconsidering their opposition.
Trillions of dollars pledged by the US and other governments and central banks around the world have been a key driver of the rally in stock markets from their March lows — but one that is weighing on the US currency.
Strong U.S. commercial production figures published some time before the New York Opening Bell contributed to a greater temperament on the floor.
– AFP
The Ministry of Health has registered 1,308 new coronaviruses in the last 23 hours. update last night, as the number of bass continues to increase.
According to the ministry’s figures, of the 23,399 active cases, 205 are in serious condition and are based on fanatics. Another 105 are in moderate conditions.
The toll is kept at 375.
According to the ministry data, 1,400 new cases have been diagnosed in Jerusalem in a week, 702 in Bnei Brak, 623 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and 439 in Beitar Illit.
The ministry says 31,392 tests were conducted on Tuesday.
The Knesset elects Likud Osnat Mark and DEPUTY Derech Zvi Hauser to the judicial appointments panel in a victory for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Coalition lawmakers beat former opposition justice minister Ayelet Shaked and held a seat on the committee.
Lawmakers were selected by secret ballot.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel Katz Finance Minister will attend a press convention tonight at 8:45 p.m. Israel time, says the Prime Minister’s Office.
Hebrew media reports say the announcement will address government stipends to all citizens to help weather the coronavirus crisis.
A 6 billion shekel plan ($1.75 billion) will cause all Israelis to get a check for 750 NIS ($218) from the government, with families eligible to obtain up to 3,000 shekels ($875), according to reports.
The Finance Department opposes the plan because it does not distinguish between those who want it and those who do not, according to reports.
The Twelfth Channel reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented former Director General of the Ministry of Health, Moshe Bar Siman-Tov, with a new post that would allow him to oversee the government’s reaction to the pandemic.
Bar Siman-Tov, who was praised for his efforts to involve the virus in the first wave of the pandemic, declined, according to the report.
The Palestinian Authority has recorded a total of 8,153 coronavirus infections, the vast majority in the month following, as new epidemics appear in the West Bank.
The Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health said it had shown 234 new instances of the new coronavirus in the West Bank. An additional 185 instances have been known in Israeli-controlled East Jerusalem, which the Palestinian Authority counts in its official statistics.
While Hebron governorate still has the vast majority of active instances, 50 new instances were registered on Wednesday. Another 181 new instances have been known in Ramallah-alBireh governorate, where nearby refugee camps have experienced outbreaks, according to figures published by Palestinian Authority government spokesman Ibrahim Milhim.
However, as cases escalate, food homeowners took to the streets of Ramallah on Wednesday to protest the closure, encouraged by the loosening of Palestinian Authority restrictions after similar protests from traders in Hebron and Ramallah.
The Palestinian Authority is expected to close over the next two weeks, with pharmacies, bakeries and “small shops” authorized to operate.
The total number of active instances in the Palestinian Authority is 5,936, totaling 43 deaths in the West Bank since the start of the pandemic.
– Aaron Boxerman
Kakhol Lavan, Netanyahu’s main coalition partner, is also critical of the government’s plan to factor checks on all Israelis, regardless of income.
“Any effort that Israelis make economically is welcome, however, it will have to be based on a guilty, long-term plan that ensures that their livelihoods will also be preserved next year,” he said.
“With regard to subsidies, Kakhol Lavan supports sending cash directly to Israeli citizens, however, this will have to be done with a focus on those whose livelihoods have been harmed: the unemployed and families in need. We’ll talk about this in more detail within the government.
A representative of Israeli self-employed people who suffered severe financial difficulties through the pandemic was enthused to pay government benefits for all, regardless of income.
“It’s a pop-up resolution to give cash to other people who don’t want it, than to other people who are crying. The independent sector is bleeding. Enough reasonable populism and hip shooting. The streets are on fire. We want genuine solutions,” he says. King Cohen, according to Channel 12.
On Sunday, ministers approved unique allocations of up to 7,500 shekels ($2,170) for Israeli self-employed staff and business leaders. But many were told that the amount they would get was less than NIS 2,000 ($580), which stoked anger. The cash arrived today in your bank accounts, channel 12 notes.
The assembly among the finances on the government’s proposal to pay subsidies to all Israeli citizens became a party of screams, with screams heard in nearby offices, the Twelfth Channel reports.
Shaul Meridor, head of the finance ministry’s budget division, warned at the meeting: “This is a very wise way to distribute money.”
“We have to be careful not to be Venezuela,” he said, according to the television report, referring to the country’s difficulties in increasing the budget due to monetary disadvantages.
The report indicates that there were no representatives of the Bank of Israel in the formulas of the plan.
At a press conference, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the government will distribute assignments to all Israelis. He says it’s “a complementary step,” in addition to aid programs, adding subsidies paid this week to small businesses and independent entrepreneurs.
“The wave, this wave, has arrived. We fight it with determination, we fight it with unity,” he says.
“I hear your anguish. You’re alone,” he says.
All Israelis over the age of 18 will have 750 NIS, he announced.
Netanyahu says a circle of relatives with a child will get 2,000 NIS, with two young 2,500 NIS, and those with 3 young people and more than 3,000 NIS.
“We want to move the economy. People are sitting at home, they don’t consume,” she says, adding that those budgets are intended to inspire more local consumerism.
He urges Israelis to buy made products, “blue and white,” to “turn the wheels.”
He urges Israeli politicians to temporarily plan.
He says he’s sure the total government will approve it and hopes it’s not to anchor it in the new legislation, because it will take time. He needs to “quickly take him to every Israeli house,” he says. “If we start to wonder why, it will take longer, I hope weeks, not months … We’ll never do that,” he adds.
“We want to move the wheels and make sure no one falls through the cracks.”
Netanyahu says the government is still hoping to postpone a full national shutdown and new steps in the next 48 hours to “flatten the curve” of new infections.
“We are doing everything we can for a total closure,” Netanyahu says, adding that this requires public discipline.
“We want to turn the Rules of the Department of Health into a life,” he says.
“Change your life,” Netanyahu adds. “Don’t be tempted to escape restrictions.”
He cites reports of a young American who infected, said he believed it was a conspiracy and admitted, before he died, that he was wrong. “The conspiracy industry also exists in Israel,” he laments.
He criticized the “representatives” who called civilians opposed to the directives, and described him as worthy of the maximum total sentence.
He says: “We are also executing a long-term plan for reopening the economy, so that we can deal with the coronavirus for as long as it is mandatory: six months, a year, or even more than a year.”
Netanyahu also condemned nearby protests, adding an outdoor demonstration at his home, as a “real danger” to public health.
“People are getting infected at these protests because they are not keeping their distance, and then infecting others; it’s a disaster, simply a disaster,” he says.
It also condemns “violence against the police and against citizens” for these demonstrations. “We won’t have to degenerate into internal hatred. You can’t go through there. We will have to deepen the unity, protect the house and, in combination, we will fight the crown and defeat it.”
Taking questions, Netanyahu says the government’s main mistake in reopening the economy was permitting gatherings and opening event halls. He says that when he told Israelis they could go back out and have fun, he didn’t tell them to break the rules.
“When, in my opinion, we did that turned out to be incorrect: opening the rooms and meetings of the occasion,” he says. “Breaking regulations and meetings, those things lead to disaster.”
The Prime Minister also discusses disputes between the Finance Department and the government over the distribution plan.
“This is the first time I’ve talked to bureaucrats. Many bureaucrats dispute my demands, but at the end of the day, duty is mine,” he says.
“I think it’s essential,” he says, referring to the allocation plan.
Netanyahu, a former finance minister, says he doesn’t want “conferences” on the economy of the finance ministry or else.
He cites his 25 years of economic surveillance, saving the Israeli economy and making him a world leader. “It’s another reality. If we don’t move the economy and make sure that all citizens get [help], some want it less and others, but let’s pass, if we start to wonder who gets the money, we do I get it starts.
He adds: “And if it turns out we’ve given a little more than we need, it’s a small mistake not to give enough.”
“In the future there will be more steps,” he stresses.
When asked if he was betting on the electoral economy, seeking a new election, he replied: “The opposite; Not really. These are steps to move the economy, to create jobs.”
It recognizes that the existing truth and the actions taken through the government “create a budget hole … and a degree of uncertainty.”
“No one knows how things will evolve in the coming months and, as a result, it’s impossible to make long-term budget plans,” he says.
Netanyahu says he doesn’t know the country’s monetary deficit. But he says the massive uncertainty about the long term forces the government to take immediate action.
“We don’t know what will happen to the global economy,” he says.
As of June 30, Israel’s deficit is 6.4% of GDP, or $16.9 billion, for the Ministry of Finance.
Finance Minister Israel Katz says he opposes a closure.
“Personally, I don’t think it will close the economy under any circumstances. The Prime Minister thinks so too,” he says.
Kakhol Lavan, Netanyahu’s main coalition partner, is also critical of the government’s plan to factor checks on all Israelis, regardless of income.
“Any effort that Israelis make economically is welcome, however, it will have to be anchored in a guilty, long-term plan that ensures that their livelihoods will also be preserved next year,” he said.
“With regard to subsidies, Kakhol Lavan supports sending cash directly to Israeli citizens, however, this will have to be done with a focus on those whose livelihoods have been harmed: the unemployed and families in need. We’ll talk about this in more detail within the government.