The restrictions took effect at 5:00 PM and will last for at least two weeks, with the possibility of extension if the morbidity data does not improve drastically • About 6,000 police officers and more than 300 checkpoints will be deployed to enforce the restrictions • The book • All the details
The last time?
The State of Israel entered a third closure this evening at 17:00 (Sunday) since the outbreak of the corona epidemic about ten months ago, during which traffic restrictions and trade, recreation and leisure activities will be imposed.
The closure will last for two weeks and will be extended for another two weeks, unless there is a decrease in the daily number of verified persons of at least one thousand and a decrease in the coefficient of infection, which will be less than 1.
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About 6,000 police officers and more than 300 checkpoints will be deployed in order to enforce the closure restrictions.
On intercity roads, 21 checkpoints will be set up in random places to divert traffic, but from 18:00 daily until midnight, more than 300 permanent checkpoints will be set up on roads throughout the country.
The regulations restrict traffic to a distance of one kilometer from home, with a few exceptions: going out to get vaccinated, medical or social care, demonstration, legal proceedings, going out for sports activities, transferring a minor between his separated parents, going out to a work place or educational setting, , At a wedding or alliance (subject to the crowd limit).
Each such violation will result in a fine of NIS 500.
Accommodation units and B & Bs, a zoo, safari, nature reserves, national parks, national sites and memorial sites will also be closed;
A place to provide non-medical treatment, including a hairdresser and a place to provide beauty and cosmetic treatments, a place to provide complementary medicine treatment, a drive to watch movies, a mall or a retail market and a museum.
In addition, the possibility of self-collection from places selling food will be eliminated.
This morning there was a drama during a meeting of the Knesset Education Committee, when it was decided that fifth to tenth grades would also be taught in schools during the closure, in cities defined as "green" or yellow.
The Education Committee rejected the regulations: 5th-10th graders will study in schools in closure // Photo: Knesset Channel
The Ministry of Education is examining the significance of the decision and whether the students will return to schools tomorrow.
The secretary general of the Teachers' Union, Yaffa Ben-David, said at the hearing that the organization would declare a labor dispute - and in fact threatened to suspend schooling: "It is true that the countries of the world have not closed the education system, but there are small groups.
We also need to learn in small groups.
If they did, it would be possible to teach routinely and even if there were closures the system would be open.
We will not abandon the teachers. "
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health published this morning the latest corona morbidity data - and what shows that yesterday 64,662 tests were performed, 2,630 of which were found to be positive.
Thus, the rate of positive results stands at 4.1%.
The Ministry of Health also stated that there are 35,525 active patients in Israel, 1,054 of whom are hospitalized, 160 of them in critical condition and 584 others in critical condition.
In addition, 133 patients were resuscitated and 178 patients were in moderate condition.
To date, 3,210 people have died from the virus in Israel.
The number of staff members in solitary confinement stands at 2,861, of whom 411 are physicians and 768 brothers and sisters.
Since midnight, 9,941 tests have been performed to detect the virus, 426 of which have turned out to be positive - so that the rate of positive tests as of 05:30 is 4.3%.
According to an update by the Ministry of Health, Israel is in second place in the world in the number of vaccines per capita (after Bahrain).
However, the rate of verifications for the virus has been rising for the past two weeks - a figure that indicates a significant increase in the spread of the disease.
The current coefficient of infection is 1.27.
Participated in the preparation of the article: Meital Yasur Beit-Or, Shlomi Diaz, Shimon Yaish, Noam (Devol) Dvir, Hayali Yaakovi-Handelsman and Itzik Saban