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Thousands of yeshiva students will return to their homes tomorrow, and the ultra-Orthodox fear a dramatic increase in morbidity - Walla! news

2020-09-27T10:24:08.970Z


After 40 days in the institutions, the yeshiva students will leave after the fast for the Sukkot holiday, with the collapse of the capsule outline in the background and the diagnosis of thousands of corona patients in the yeshivot. Now, there is concern in the sector that some of them will return home without knowing they are sick, and will infect their family members. Senior Ministry of Health: "It's very disturbing"


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Thousands of yeshiva students will return to their homes tomorrow, and the ultra-Orthodox fear a dramatic rise in morbidity

After 40 days in the institutions, the yeshiva students will leave after the fast for the Sukkot holiday, with the collapse of the capsule outline in the background and the diagnosis of thousands of corona patients in the yeshivot.

Now, there is concern in the sector that some of them will return home without knowing they are sick, and will infect their family members.

Senior Ministry of Health: "It's very disturbing"

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Sunday, 27 September 2020, 13:12

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Thousands of yeshiva students are expected to leave the ultra-Orthodox educational institutions across the country tomorrow (Monday) evening, as Yom Kippur leaves, and leave for their homes for the Sukkot holiday.

The students have been in the capsule outline approved by the Ministry of Health for the past 40 days, but this has shown worrying signs in recent days after thousands of patients were located at some of the meetings.

Now, there is concern that the return of their friends to their homes will increase morbidity in the ultra-Orthodox sector.



The "Capsule Outline" was born immediately after the Passover holiday, in the midst of the first wave, and was based on groups of 20 students each, each of whom was completely isolated from the outside world and the other capsules.

After two weeks of study, meals and accommodation in the same group - the capsules in which corona patients were not found were consolidated, and the students continued to stay in the yeshiva while disconnecting from the environment, without even going to family events.

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The extent of morbidity in the ultra-Orthodox sector is dramatic.

Bnei Brak at the end of Rosh Hashanah (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The outline proved itself, and in most of the meetings that operated under special supervision led by Maj. Gen. Roni Noma, not a single patient was found.

Immediately after Tisha B'Av, the students returned to their homes, and towards the month of Elul, the beginning of school time in the ultra-Orthodox yeshivas, additional yeshivas adopted the outline and acted on it, even while other educational institutions around the country were shut down.

But in recent weeks, thousands of cases of infection have broken out in yeshivas, and some of the yeshivot's buildings have automatically been turned into corona hotels for the benefit of the sick and isolated.



A senior ultra-Orthodox source has raised several reasons for the collapse of the outline, the main of which is the lack of discipline in relation to the guidelines of the Ministry of Health.

He notes, among other things, that "in the second wave there were many more meetings that joined the outline, but most of them did not have the option of managing it or enforcing the exit from the institution in a strict and proper manner."

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According to the guidelines, the young men who fell inside the yeshivot and their friends who were required to be isolated will remain in the yeshivot buildings that will become Corona hotels.

However, the big concern is that they will leave the yeshivot to their crowded homes in the ultra-Orthodox cities and do not know in advance that they are sick - will increase the morbidity of these concentrations.

A source in the Ministry of Health used harsh words when he told Walla!

NEWS that "We are on the verge of a major attack".

"The increase in the number of ultra-Orthodox patients is frightening"

Avi Blumenthal, chairman of the Ministry of Health's information staff for the ultra-Orthodox sector, said that "the yeshivot are not prepared to hold the boys until after Sukkot, and there is a great fear that boys will return home when some are sick and unaware of it." And multiplied.

As long as there is a possibility to isolate the young man in this house, this will be the most appropriate action to take. "



The ultra-Orthodox leaders, including Rabbi Shalom Cohen, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky and Rabbi Gershon Edelstein Even for those who have already contracted the virus, however, the provisions may sharpen the importance of maintaining the guidelines but do not constitute a solution to the high numbers that already indicate a dramatic extent of morbidity in the ultra-Orthodox sector.

"Statistics are closing in on us."

Bnei Brak, about three weeks ago (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Jerusalem and Bnei Brak are the cities with the largest number of active patients, by a larger margin than the rest: 7,388 active patients in the capital, and 4,031 in Bnei Brak, compared with 3,010 in Ashdod, which is next on the list.

They also lead the number of new patients in the past week (4,644 and 2,782 respectively).

High numbers were also recorded in Modi'in Illit: 1,707 active patients (seventh among the cities), 1,231 of whom were diagnosed in the last week (fifth among the cities).



Blumenthal stressed the severity of the morbidity situation in the sector.

"The increase in the number of patients in the ultra-Orthodox cities is frightening. Even in difficult patients, and many of them are young. It is time we stopped looking at others why they behave one way or another and focus on our lives, our health, our family members," he said.

"The statistics close in on us. If the great men of Israel say that one should pray in the open, then it is obligatory to obey without being clever and without fussing. It is difficult for an ultra-Orthodox person to think of praying on Yom Kippur at home.

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