Medical experts have trouble answering: When will it end? When will the deadly virus evaporate and release us from the imprisonment period laid upon us? Shutting down the rule for seclusion, for loneliness, seems to be particularly difficult on the Israeli public, making noises in almost every area of ​​daily life. The routine silence annoys the many. We settle for one silent day of rest a year: Yom Kippur. Even the rustle of bikes on this day, in the street silent from cars, can get us out of our minds. It seems that the silence of our daily lives cannot last long. The nation and its leader will explode if so be it - though there is at least one advantage: the Knesset is more striking than surging.

Although, looking at the desolate streets from the air, as seen in News 12, one can be struck with a modest degree of anxiety: bustling settlements seemed silent, like ghost colonies. As if a storm had swept through every bit of life. But the result of the silence of daily life is not just a curse. It also has a blessing. At least for our taste. It is permissible to assume that not everything feels that they are in a time of misery, in the days when the government sentenced us to disengage from the human environment that we know. And the welcome side of daily life paralysis, the life that is going on outside, can certainly be exploited, even for the greater good.

What is required is to distinguish between the decree of solitude placed in the decree by the government, and the seclusion, the one which occurs by personal, free choice. True, the biblical recommendation is known: It is not good to be human alone. But also choosing to isolate free will has a blessing.

But not only in India, and not just monasteries. One of the US defense ministers, James Schlesinger, used to spend many hours, even days, fishing, his hobby. Wait, waiting for the fish in silence.

It is hard for us to imagine that an incumbent prime minister would decide to isolate himself, and even in a cylindrical grove. And no, there is no family trip in the north. It refers to real loneliness, seclusion for thought. In his loneliness, he would have been criticized by the bargains of state affairs. But in fact there is a precedent. Here, in 1961, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion left for Burma to wonder about the meaning of Buddhism. He also experimented there in isolation, and, as expected, criticized him in Israel for preferring loneliness exercises over urgent state affairs.

Sometimes, incidentally, a country decides, too, in calm times, to act outwardly: the British government, in the late 19th century, adopted a policy known as "glorious loneliness." This manifested itself in attracting European affairs beyond the canal. Perhaps US President Donald Trump is striving for a "glorious loneliness" in his foreign relations.

Indeed, seclusion may therefore be an advantage for the leader and his people. The benefit to the active statesman: An incentive for other thinking, "out of the box" thinking. But a lasting, even eternal, reality of loneliness and routine in routine is more beautiful to the Swiss prime minister, for example. There is no red telephone next to his bed.