The city's residents, who were criticized for ignoring the guidelines, shut themselves down in houses under the rabbis' order • Litzman: consider closure on Bnei Brak • Mea Shearim: MDA medic wearing stones

Police realized that they could negotiate with the ultra-Orthodox public in Bnei Brak as much as they wanted and distribute reports for thousands of shekels.

But one statement said this week by Rabbi Haim Kanievsky, the Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox leader, saying "anyone who doesn't listen to the doctor's teaching - persecutes" changed almost every approach in the city yesterday, for the first time, as one whose residents internalized the consequences of the virus.

Hundreds of funeral in Bnei Brak // Photo: Moti Green

The city, with its tired and busy streets, looked spacious, humble and peaceful yesterday. The same ruling by Rabbi Kanievsky, who shortly before instructed the school to continue as if nothing - this time instructed to update the police on anyone who improved isolation. It did its thing, and the residents shut themselves in houses. The cat and mouse games with the cops are over.

A senior Tel Aviv police officer has confirmed consciousness changes among the ultra-Orthodox in the city. "There are two major changes - one, a perception of the ultra-Orthodox public, which today seems to face more than ever the magnitude of morbidity and the significant need for adherence to the guidelines. In addition, this is the second, Rabbi Kanievsky's reading showed its signs on Bnei Brak streets, and it can be said that for the first time They are empty. "

Still, police also continued yesterday to erect roadblocks at entrances to and from the city, and in key areas within it. The special task force set up continued to operate in the same format. At the same time, a police official emphasizes that the policy is now less forgiving and contains no warnings and most enforcement, including providing "painful in the pocket" reports, in his language. The reports were distributed to business owners and even to the Kamacha Dapsha departments who did not keep distance and prevent gathering.

Health Minister Yaakov Litzman recommended that the prime minister close the city of Bnei Brak, given the surge in the number of Corona patients there. At the same time, police raided the Mea She'arim neighborhood in Jerusalem yesterday, closed synagogues that were in violation of the directives and confronted ultra-Orthodox residents. A Red Star David was attacked when he came to sample a man suspected of being a Corona patient in the neighborhood. Four were arrested.

Meital Yasur Beit Or and Hanan Greenwood participated in the preparation