On Wednesday, about a hundred academics from an ieshivá in the northern city of Karmiel were diagnosed with the disease, the committee said.
According to the law, Israelis must quarantine for 14 days after being exposed to a user who tested positive for the new coronavirus.
According to media reports in Hebrew, Kanievsky said Tuesday that sending legally required quarantined academics can lead to “damaging the Torah exam, God forbid.”
Kanievsky added that “it is the duty of yeshivas leaders to allow the examination to [continue] in a way that is dangerous,” without exposing.
Kanievsky’s comments came when young Israelis returned to school after the summer break, 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open because “the cancellation of the Torah exam is more harmful than the coronavirus.”His decree, which he later rescinded, was partially blamed for infection rates in ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel, adding his hometown of Bnei Brak.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 contagion rates, in recent months the degrees of morbidity have fallen, several localities marked as hot spots as a component of a plan previously implemented this week are ultra-Orthodox, he added.the West Bank city of Beitar Illit.
On Monday, Beitar Illit protested the order to close schools after being designated as a “red city”, or mastery of the main infection, as a component of the “light signals” program of coronavirus tsar Ronni Gamzu.
The program, which aims to help the country fight coronavirus and avoid general blockade, designates cities, towns and regional councils in red, orange, yellow or green based on the number of cases shown that coincide with the capita and the rate at which the virus spreads in community.
Bnei Brak is expected to soon be declared a “red city” according to the Hebrew media.
Israel has experienced nearly 120,000 coronavirus infections and 963 deaths since the onset of the pandemic.
Sam Sokol and Jacob Magid contributed to this report.