Israel is under cover for Passover, the Jewish Passover. The most important celebration of Judaism which celebrates deliverance will take place this Wednesday for the first time in the history of the Hebrew state in confinement. In preventive confinement at his home on Balfour Street in Jerusalem, the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, intervened on Monday evening on television to announce drastic measures in the fight against the spread of Covid-19. The country goes into total curfew.
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Car traffic from one city to another is prohibited, public transport is stopped and home confinement is imposed. The main centers of the pandemic - neighborhoods of Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, a city on the outskirts of Tel Aviv and other ultra-Orthodox localities - are cut off from the rest of the world as the army deploys to help the infected .
"You must stay in your towns and villages ... only people living under the same roof can
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