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Mayor of Bnei Brak: "Do not close the city and turn us into a ghetto - it will have the opposite effect" | Israel today

2020-03-31T18:18:26.362Z


Mayor Bnei Brak, many of whose residents are infected in Corona, opposes closure • Nevertheless, the police have set up checkpoints at the entrances to the city


The ultra-Orthodox mayor, many of whose residents were infected in Corona, opposes the closure • Police set up checkpoints at the entrance to the city • Despite the incidents - IDF soldiers will roam the city in uniform

  • Checkpoints in Bnei Brak // Photo: Gideon Markovich

The mayor of Bnei Brak, Avraham Rubinstein, made his first appearance Tuesday (Tuesday) of the isolation in which he was staying for the possibility of a closure of the city. "It is impossible to build a new prison, the reality will not allow it. The residents will not stand it and the recommendation will only create the opposite effect. Bnei Brak should not be turned into a ghetto, the closure will not cure the disease."

Earlier, Gen. Ronnie Nome was appointed to head the Corona headquarters in Bnei Brak, and at the same time the Drive Inn complex was opened for mass testing, but it is not certain it will be effective because many of the city's residents do not own the vehicle.

Mayor Bnei Brak: "Do not impose a closure on us - it will have the opposite effect"

Earlier in the day, police placed police checkpoints on the streets of Bnei Brak, checking residents' identity cards as a step in enforcing the enforcement. The cops continued to engage in public information, as well as conducting business reviews, overseeing the need for them to be in isolation.

In addition, the police received a report of an apartment that was converted to a midrash. Police officers arriving at the scene delayed the owner of the apartment who was trying to escape and was arrested. The police also located a synagogue that acted contrary to the instructions. It was closed and those present on the scene received reports of breach of the public health order.

The Corona city test complexes were closed

Meanwhile, Rubinstein has banned sick funds from conducting corona tests around the city. The Bnei Brak municipality recently dismantled the four test complexes to identify the corona virus infection established by the Bnei Brak health funds, just hours after Health Minister Yaakov Litzman sought to impose a complete closure on the city. The health funds set up tents outside the branches to bypass the ban and inspect the citizens without endangering them, and city inspectors did not give them reports.

The municipality claims tents for corona testing were erected in crowded residential areas, and some were erected inside residential buildings where the elderly and children are located.

In a letter sent by the municipality's CEO, Shmuel Litov, he cited the population density of the city of Bnei Brak, which is not a secret. "This is the most densely populated area in the entire State of Israel, all of which implies that the danger of infection becomes as tangible as we can see," he wrote. .

In the letter, the CEO protests the lack of coordination with the urban system "To the frustration, we are once again exposed through speaking messages and hammering sounds on the ground, about teaching and directing the construction of test complexes in the health fund offices in the city's busiest residential areas. The implication is simple: daily friction of thousands of neighbors (sometimes in the same residential building), almost direct contact with a large population of thousands of children, at-risk populations without protection and without justification. "

Municipal inspectors in Bnei Brak dismantle the tents for corona testing // Photo: United Health Fund

Litov points out that there are huge areas in isolated and risk-free areas in the city, as the Authority did operate in the joint Drive Inn complex with MDA, which is located in the industrial zone complex in the north of the city.

Accordingly, the CEO ordered an immediate stop, "until full coordination with the PA proper and agreed areas for the health of the residents, when we as a PA collect them and assist them with whatever is needed, at any time and at any time in the most urgent and urgent manner"

Of the major cities, Bnei Brak is the city with the highest number of people infected in Israel (2.87 are infected per 1,000 residents, compared with an average of 0.27 for every 1,000 in other cities), with the high number and exception being due, among other things, to the irresponsible behavior of some of the city's residents, who used to Demonstrating against the Ministry of Health guidelines.

Photo: Avi Cohen

In one incident, IDF soldiers who were deployed as an auxiliary force for MDA teams in Bnei Brak were asked by their commanders to remove the uniform, for fear of violent incidents. After a violent incident that occurred several days ago in the city, the IDF decided that soldiers would not enter friction centers with the ultra-Orthodox population, and that soldiers would wear MDA too. Today, the IDF spokesman said: "It is a mistake on the part of the soldiers' commanders in the area that has already been repaired, and the teams to move when wearing only the uniform of the IDF. The IDF will continue to assist the national effort as requested."

Enforcing closure // Photo: Michelle Dot Com

Attorney General Avihai Mandelblit is examining the possibility of putting the city into immediate closure, with a document explaining the closure's necessity and practical steps to take it already formulated and placed in the hands of the USSR. The document is now awaiting approval, should this happen, the ninth-largest city in Israel will be put into full closure week.

In the meantime, the Israeli police released the enforcement data of emergency regulations. According to the data, so far 135 criminal cases related to the isolation violations have been opened in the police. In addition, 40 investigations have been opened for various cases of false information dissemination. Also, so far, 2,941 reports have been recorded by the police to private citizens and business owners.

Enforcement also in Tel Aviv

Ninety soldiers were annexed today to the Tel Aviv police. The soldiers who went out with the police to demonstrate visibility on the street and create a seemingly deterrent will only be in places where friction cannot be created - they will not be in the ultra-Orthodox and Arab areas.

In the Tel Aviv District, the soldiers will only serve as police officers in southern and central Tel Aviv. There are no powers, nor will they speak to the civilians and of course no weapons, except officers with long arms. When the policemen approached the civilians to check what they were doing on the street, the soldiers stood in the distance without masks, but with gloves in their hands, they also did not seem to understand what their role was.

Police sources told "Israel Today" that "all this annexation is quite unnecessary and a burden on the police, especially when the soldiers are only in places where most of the civilians obey the Ministry of Health's instructions. It is precisely at concentrations where the population does not obey, where perhaps they could Soldiers create deterrence, they will not come. "

Source: israelhayom

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