Health Minister Edelstein and CEO Levi made sure the public felt that unlike their predecessors, they did not intend to make it difficult with multiple restrictions.

Serious medical experts - not a handful of charlatan doctors and managers, who mislead and endanger the public as if "Corona is just the flu" and "there was not even a first wave here" - as well as some of the health ministry's officials, once again alerted to the end of the Corona's first wave Too fast a routine of education and economy can lead to a steep and dangerous increase of patients and infected in Corona. They also warned that illusions should not be mistaken for the Corona to disappear by the summer.

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Nonetheless, the government has taken a series of urgent steps to return too quickly, irresponsibly and dangerously, without sufficient restrictions and virtually no control. Some of these reckless measures were already shared by the new heads of the Ministry of Health, Minister Yuli Edelstein and CEO Prof. Hezi Levy, who were concerned about giving the public a feeling that, unlike their predecessors in the post, Yaakov Litzman and Moshe Bar Good sign, they do not intend to make it more difficult for the public.

But it quickly became clear that these were false and illusory promises, circulated by Edelstein and Levy, and could now cost the country and all of us dearly. This is also why both of them now have to announce stricter new restrictions. Edelstein's and Levi's early statements about the Corona were, in part, miserable, and even hampered the public's willingness to now accept restrictions and guidelines that would be even more stringent. 

Even worse, the Ministry of Health and the government did not use the time so far to urgently, critically and substantially improve the functioning and operation of the health system (and other systems such as education and welfare), to curb - or at least reduce - the extent of the epidemic outbreak and allow Israel to recover its achievements. Significant on a global scale in curbing the first wave of corona eruption, with a relatively small number of severely ill and deceased patients in Israel.

As revealed a week ago in "Israel Today," according to the Ministry of Health's internal data to conduct corona contracting investigations, in order to locate anyone who lives near or in contact with them (epidemiological investigations), the Ministry of Health urgently needs more than hundreds of workers. The unbearable burden on public health nurses has been known to the Ministry for months, but until about a week ago, the Ministry of Health did not worry about resolving a continuing default that is at the center of the fight against the epidemic.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded this week to shorten the examination times (up to 24 hours) and to urgently improve the investigations conducted. Indeed, these steps - if taken - can re-establish Israel to record global achievements and allow a gradual return to routine life.

Another problem, which is recurring in the fight against Corona, is the growing public confidence in the Ministry of Health against the backdrop of the poor and outrageous example of some elected officials, ministers, Knesset members and celebrities whose influence on some of the public is huge. But this is not a gossip or a political issue, since in the days of an epidemic without a vaccine or a public confidence drug in decision-makers is a critical means of reducing the spread and without it, it can never be won. 

The Ministry of Health's information must also be improved. Mostly the transfer of information to the public and to the media - which is still very lacking, and the information itself is partially delivered.

Moshe Bar Siman, former director general of the Ministry of Health, said at the beginning of the epidemic that the state of Israel, like the rest of the world, is working to fight the spread of the virus under a "very thick battle fog", while dangerous marching in a minefield where The visible. 

However, the ongoing exit from the Corona restrictions is in heavy fog in a minefield, so it should be clear that the restrictions must be cautious, slow and balanced - recklessness may not lead Israel to the numbers of the dead in Italy, Spain, New York, the United Kingdom and Brazil.

Now it is hoped that the Ministry of Health will come to terms, work resolutely to correct the distortions and omissions in the fight against the epidemic, and prevent once again from dispelling false illusions that will cost us all dearly.