The Corona Cabinet is expected to decide today, if it succeeds in all disputes, even on leaving the closure in "red" cities • Confused parents: Conflicting messages from the Ministry of Health about the opening of the kindergartens on Sunday
The Corona Cabinet will convene today (Tuesday) at noon for a meeting at which a final decision on how to exit the quarantine should finally be made.
Topics to be discussed: approval of opening businesses without receiving an audience, return to the routine of kindergartens and opening of Ben Gurion Airport according to the model of the red and green countries.
Netanyahu: "We will open early childhood education and small businesses that do not receive an audience, but carefully and gradually" // Photo: Itai Beit Leon, GPO
Among all decision-makers at the political and professional level, there is a consensus that this time the exit process must be carried out at a slow and careful pace.
However, there are significant disagreements between ministers and professionals from the Ministry of Health, Education and Finance - to what extent.
The Ministry of Education is pushing for the resumption of low-age activities in schools, and not just early childhood.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Health insists that at this stage, the cabinet can only approve the opening of early childhood education from this coming Sunday.
In addition, approval is expected to open businesses that do not receive an audience.
The Cabinet will also likely make a significant decision to leave the closure on "red" cities, where the level of morbidity is very high.
In most cases, these are ultra-Orthodox cities and neighborhoods.
Unhealthy contradictions
Prime Minister Netanyahu reiterated yesterday that mistakes were made in the process of leaving the first blockade. However, he blamed them for Knesset members, whom he accused of populism. Lost.
We learned the lessons from the exit from the first closure, and I hope that others in this house also produced them. "
Public criticism of conflicting messages from decision-makers was reflected again yesterday in the Ministry of Health's position regarding the opening of kindergartens on Sunday.
While the ministry's deputy director general, Prof. Itamar Grotto, said yesterday in the Knesset's Education Committee that kindergartens and nurseries will open, the head of the public health services emphasized yesterday and yesterday that "everything depends on the morbidity indices.
We do not meet them at the moment. "
According to her, this is not a contradiction, since "Grotto estimated that by Sunday we will meet the morbidity indices."
In their desperation, millions of students, parents and teachers today turn their eyes to the corona cabinet for discussion, hoping it will be in line with their case.
This is despite the words of the Minister of Health last night to News 12, that only on Thursday this week will final decisions be made regarding the studies.
The Ministry of Education is concerned about the pedagogical aspect of the students, that as time goes on they lose material and learning is impaired.