After a call from the heads of health and home ministries, it was decided to ease the restrictions in those cities. • Closure on those areas will end tonight at midnight.

• Bnei Brak, last weekend // Photo: Coco

The heads of the Ministry of Health and the Interior decided on Sunday to ease the closure of Bnei Brak and some of the neighborhoods in Jerusalem, which will end at midnight tonight. According to the Ministry of Health, after a talk by Minister of Health Yaakov Litzman, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and Director General of the Ministry of Health Moshe Bar Good sign, and in light of "initial encouraging data in the cities of Bnei Brak and Jerusalem with positive signs and indications", the move was decided.

Photo: June Rickner, Paz Bar

Mayors Bnei Brak and Jerusalem have also pledged to take patients out of the city to hotels - at least half of the city's remaining patients by the end of the week. A special discussion on the topic will be held tomorrow at 10 p.m. In Bnei Brak, most of the restrictions are now concentrated on the public transport movement to the city itself, which is not possible. In Jerusalem, closures were imposed on dozens of neighborhoods following high morbidity data. 

As mentioned, the ministerial committee determining the closure policy throughout Israel during the Corona days on Thursday approved the closure conditions on Bnei Brak and extended the closure on various boroughs in Jerusalem. In Bnei Brak, the closure is easier conditions than the closure decided two weeks ago.

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Initially, it was decided that in Bnei Brak, with the exception of the industrial zone which is located north of the Mother Road, a partial closure will continue until tomorrow, April 20, during which the public transport activity in the city will be banned except for taxis.

In addition, it was decided at the same meeting that certain districts in Jerusalem, in accordance with the map of community administrations, would also be limited. The neighborhoods in the capital that closed from April 16 to the present day were: Ramot, Ramat Shlomo, Neve Ya'akov, Har Nof, Givat Shaul, Kiryat Moshe, Nahlaot, Rehavia between KKL and Ramban Streets (inclusive), Makor Baruch, Greater Roma, Ezra Torah, Redemption, Mea She'arim, Beit Israel, Musrara, Beit Vagan, Givat Mordechai, Samuel the Prophet, Extended Sanhedria, Maalot Dafna and Ramat Eshkol