Yom Kippur this year also involves a need for personal and national mental reckoning • This is exactly the time to plan for further preparations for the fight against the virus that continues to spread at a dizzying pace across the country • And for some seniors, this is the right time to hit on sin • Interpretation
The responsibility and blame for the accelerated eruption, on an international scale, of the second corona wave in Israel is shared and shared by many factors.
Yom Kippur is a necessary time for personal and national mental reckoning, not only for the beating of sin and the request for forgiveness, but also and especially for seeing how to act differently to reduce the spread of the plague and better prepare for the widespread and severe health, economic and social consequences of the corona.
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Israeli politics has caused and is already causing paralysis and severe, and, God forbid, fatal, damage in the struggle in Corona.
Similarly, in some of the proceedings of the Corona Committee in the Knesset, headed by MK Yifat Shasha-Bitton, it was possible to see how a vocal minority of Knesset members, both from the opposition and the coalition, was not ashamed or sick of any means to torpedo critical efforts to slow the epidemic.
The same minority also does not resort to any means to harm and humiliate the Ministry of Health.
In some cases, the Corona Commission has become the enemy of the Corona struggle.
It is clear that there is a critical, governmental and public necessity to criticize the government, but this must not be done at the expense of harming health and public life.
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charge corona Prof. Roni Gamzu taking office declared intention to stop such extensive outbreak of plague only local closures without closing the entire country, is a world-class experiment, and now has no choice but to say that the experiment failed badly, dramatic and traumatic.
It is also true that the failure is also because the government did not give the program the necessary backing but also an informed assessment of the ability to perform this dangerous experiment in the health and lives of all of us, should have been done by Gamzo even before declaring the whole nation health experiment.
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If we mention these days the terrible military failure of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, then we can also see signs of complacency, disconnection from reality and poor management of Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and Health Ministry Director General Prof. Hezi Levy. In the first weeks of appointments, they spoke as if The Corona is almost behind us and broadcast as if they would do everything possible to prevent a closure of Israel again, but at the same time, the Ministry of Health did not do everything it had to do to improve Israel's ability to contain the epidemic.
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Since the beginning of the epidemic, there have been sections of Israeli society, including the ultra-Orthodox, the Arabs and other sections of society, who disregard the provisions of the corona - thus causing very severe damage in the national struggle to eradicate the spread of the corona.
It is true that the reasons for this are also a lack of trust in the government and a really failed explanation by the Ministry of Health, but these are not excuses for criminal behavior that endangers the lives of too many Israelis.
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In an epidemic on the scale of the Corona, the impact of the media on the public is a critical tier in the fight against the virus.
But in the Israeli media there is a scandalous glorification and prominence of the "cult of the corona deniers", in which a handful of doctors and senior executives under the auspices or under the guise of white robes provide misleading and false, false, partial and manipulative information about the corona (especially information that diminishes, belittles and dwarfs the plague). Many in front of them do not put up any doctor or scientist to deal with and confront them.
This phenomenon is especially noticeable in some of the most prestigious and watched programs on the main channels, thus the presenters and editors themselves affect in a difficult, destructive and very offensive way Israel's readiness and coping with the corona and the very life of all of us.