Restrictions will continue in areas with high morbidity even after the reliefs • In Jerusalem: an effort to reduce infection • In Ashdod: Residents oppose the ultra-Orthodox sector • Situation
Beit Shemesh, yesterday
Photography:
Jonathan Saul
In the absence of a significant change in the data, neighborhoods in Jerusalem and cities such as Beit Shemesh and Ashdod are expected to remain closed - even after easing in the rest of the country.
In Jerusalem, an effort is being made to ensure that all the beer neighborhoods will not be red, but at the moment the neighborhoods of Neve Ya'akov and Ramat Shlomo are still red.
Eli Yaakobi, chairman of the community administration in the Neve Ya'akov neighborhood, does his best to help the residents of the neighborhood. "Neve Ya'akov is a mixed neighborhood with 75% of the ultra-Orthodox sector," he explains, "everyone with masks.
We make the effort, but there is overcrowding and we travel a lot on buses. "
At the same time, in Beit Shemesh, the division between the sectors is deepening.
Gadi Damari, a resident of the city, clarified that "there is anger among the general public that entire sections of the ultra-Orthodox public do not consciously follow the guidelines. We are not talking about extremists like Naturi Karta and the Jerusalem faction but also an ultra-Orthodox mainstream."
Photo: Knesset Channel
At the same time, 141 new patients were reported in Ashdod.
"Kollels have opened," the residents say, "sometimes it seems that the ultra-Orthodox do what they want."
Beitar Illit and Modi'in Illit are preparing for the possibility of a continued closure of the red cities.
City officials say private educational institutions will open one way or another, next Monday.
Meanwhile, the extent of corona morbidity in the south has increased, and as of today horizons and paths are defined as red cities.
Sheeran Vaknin, resident of Ofakim: "People here need sanctions."
Participated in the preparation of the article: Yuri Yalon, Shlomi Diaz, Efrat Forscher and Gadi Golan