By insisting on virus testing, Kanievsky also rabbis who are at risk due to their age or ability to stay away from students.
Kanievsky’s orders were not applied to high school ieshiva, according to the report. Unlike senior ieshiva, where students are at least 17-18 years old and sleep on site in dormitories, many of the ieshiva of the best schools pass from home every night, putting them in touch with more people and therefore pose a great threat of infection spread.
As a result, students in the best schools undergo tests of the virus if they have any of the symptoms of the disease, Kanievsky said.
In his initial reaction to the report, Gamzu Kanievsky’s statements “endanger the ultra-Orthodox public. “
Kanievsky’s comments came when young Israelis returned to school after the summer holidays, amid officials’ considerations that academics may be the main vectors of coronavirus infection.
In March, when the pandemic began to spread in Israel, Kanievsky announced through a spokesman that the test rooms remain open because “the cancellation of the Torah exam is more harmful than the coronavirus. “His decree, which he later rescinded, was partially blamed for infection rates in ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel, adding his hometown of Bnei Brak.
According to figures from the Ministry of Health, ultra-Orthodox communities have led the country in terms of contagion rates, in recent months morbidity levels have dropped.
On Sunday, ministers approved night curfews in some 40 cities with the highest infection rates, rather than the planned full shutdown in the past in fewer cities, a plan that had led to a risk of uprising by some ultra-Orthodox mayors, and a primary political crisis shared parties.
Curfews will be in effect every day between 7 p. m. and five in the morning. Non-essential businesses will close curfew. Schools will be closed at all times.
They were due to take effect on Monday night, but the Ministry of Health showed that the policy will be implemented until Tuesday, amid disagreements with the mayors of the 40 viral hot spots.
The final list of affected communities will be announced Monday night, the ministry said.
The cabinet to vote on a plan formulated through Gamzu to impose new closures in 10 municipalities, adding the Arab cities of um al-Fahm, Tira and Kfar Qassem, and the Haredi cities of Elad, Bnei Brak, Beitar Illit and Emmanuel. Israel this The weekend spent 1000 dead in COVID-19.
But faced with a backlash from the Haredi leadership, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled the special closet assembly on closures and held an assembly with the leaders of the two major ultra-Orthodox political parties, United Torah Judaism Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri of Shas in an effort to appease emerging anger on Haredi Street.
Netanyahu’s U-turn came after 4 haredi mayors issued an unprecedented open letter on Sunday accusing him of “ensnaring” their communities and “becoming vectors of disease and enemies of the people. “