Due to the expected closure during the holidays: Minister Litzman announced his resignation from the government Israel today

The Minister of Construction and Housing carried out his threat, and submitted a letter of resignation to the Prime Minister • This is not the first time he has resigned, and in 2017 he chose the same protest step following the railway works on Saturday • "Summary of holiday prayers in Hopper synagogues" On Gamzo's contempt for the holidays "

Following the threat on the subject, today (Sunday) the chairman of Torah Judaism and the Minister of Construction and Housing, Yaakov Litzman, announced to Prime Minister Netanyahu that he was resigning from the government.

In a letter sent to Netanyahu, he wrote: "For a month I have been hearing about the plans to close the country on holidays and I have warned all along that it is an injustice and contempt for hundreds of thousands of citizens, ultra-Orthodox, religious and traditional. If a full closure is needed, where have you been so far? For the treatment of Corona despite the severe suffering of the public.

I see as a significant value violation the fact that the Israeli holidays have become something that can be harmed, in advance planning, compared to other areas such as mass demonstrations, the holiday season in July-August and the like.

It is unfortunate that the closure during the holidays was planned and marked in advance by the Corona projector due to a lack of appreciation for Israeli holidays and festivals. "

The Minister of Housing and Construction told his associates: "This is a value step as an act of protest against the contempt of the Corona Mana during the holidays and festivals of Israel. It is clear to everyone that Yom Kippur will prevent tens of thousands of Jews, including those who come to synagogue at least on this day. While disrespecting and disrespecting the Israeli holidays. "

Shas chairman Minister Aryeh Deri responded to the resignation and said: "I am very sorry about the resignation of my colleague Rabbi Yaakov Litzman from the government. We will continue together in the government and beyond to fight the Corona virus for the health of the country. I hope and hope that Rabbi Litzman will return to government For the sake of the people and the state. "

In response to Litzman's threat, Communications Minister Yoaz Handel said this morning in an interview with Yishai Shenrav's program at the GLC that "resigning now is not the right thing to do, we need to formulate the best outline."

According to the proposed outline, prayers during the Tishrei holidays will take place with a limit of up to 20 people in an open area, while in a closed building, where the level of morbidity is high, groups of up to 10 people can be found - with the number of groups doubled. Three, all as long as a person's ratio is maintained for every 4 square meters of space. In a building elsewhere (where the morbidity level is not high), groups of up to 25 people can pray, with the number of groups allowed as the number of entrances doubled (all that is maintained ratio Of a person per 4 square meters of space).

Last week, even before the corona cabinet approved the imposition of the closure, an ultra-Orthodox political source said that "the current crisis with Netanyahu is even more serious than it was when he formed the government with Yair Lapid without ultra-Orthodox."

The mayors of Bnei Brak, Beitar Illit Elad and Emanuel last week sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entitled "In the absence of cooperation, there will be no cooperation," in which they wrote that "the entire ultra-Orthodox public will not forget the injustice done to them."

In the letter, they claimed that a large part of the blame for the mass infection with the virus throughout Israel was directed at the ultra-Orthodox society.

"As someone who managed this crisis, you never bothered to hear our voice, understand the hardships and try to promote real initiatives to flatten the disease curve, your ear was not attentive to us and did not bother to ask, understand and learn what characterizes a significant section of the population in Israel - budgetary, social and media. ", The mayors wrote in their letter.

"Time and time again, imposing a closure and another closure on the ultra-Orthodox cities. They never produced a real change, otherwise we would all support them everywhere and implement them with our own power. Each such closure led to a breach of trust and a ten-step decline in willingness to be checked, obeyed and obeyed To the health guidelines, and with the removal of definitions, we found ourselves starting all over again. "