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2020-12-21T15:16:55.281Z


| Tourism Arkia and Israir have announced that they will increase the number of flights in order to bring back Israelis who want to come to Israel before the law requiring hotel isolation takes effect • An Israeli who returned from London: "We had no idea we would go into forced isolation" • Arkia plane takes off // Photo: Coco The Israeli airlines Arkia and Israir have announced that they will increase


Arkia and Israir have announced that they will increase the number of flights in order to bring back Israelis who want to come to Israel before the law requiring hotel isolation takes effect • An Israeli who returned from London: "We had no idea we would go into forced isolation" •

  • Arkia plane takes off // Photo: Coco

The Israeli airlines Arkia and Israir have announced that they will increase the number of flights in the next two days in order to return Israelis who want to arrive in Israel before the entry into force of the law that requires isolation in a hotel.

The said law will take effect this coming Wednesday at 14:00 and anyone who lands in the country, from any country, will be required to be isolated in a motel for 10 days subject to two corona tests or for 14 days without corona tests.

Anyone who lands by then in any country other than Britain, Denmark and South Africa will be able to move the insulation in his home.

In the coming days, messages are expected to be issued that cancel out a very significant amount of flights to Dubai, Seychelles and many destinations around the world.

Many hotels around the country are already preparing for the absorption of tens of thousands of Israelis who are expected to return to Israel in the near future.

It is important to emphasize that the decision is valid for only ten days at this stage, mainly with the aim of examining the significance of the mutation discovered in England and spreading around the world. 

Israir will operate 12 flights to Dubai in order to return Israelis who want to avoid isolation in a hotel.

Arkia will increase the pace of flights and operate rescue flights to Dubai in the next two days.

El Al has not yet addressed the issue.

Ziv Rosen, CEO of the Gulliver Group: “We are under many question marks and our representatives are prepared to provide an online service to customers.

The meaning of the obligation of isolation in hotels for all returnees from abroad is probably that quite a few flights will be canceled and enters another wave of cancellations, credits and lack of clarity towards the near future of the foreign tourism industry.

At the same time, domestic tourism is still active and we recommend those who are interested in a vacation to go on vacation in the green islands defined in Israel or in the holiday villages and open B & Bs. "

In a conversation with Nadav Steinberg (27) and Eden Idoger (25) from Rishon Lezion who landed on the first flight from London whose passengers were required to enter the hotel in isolation, they say: "We knew we would arrive in Israel and enter isolation at home. We had no idea we would enter the hotel by force. third.

I read somewhere that wants to tell the pilot that it will be announced and in the end it did not happen, not that it would change anything.

We can not wash our clothes, we are not quite ready here.

In the meantime, they brought us breakfast and dinner, not amazing food but also not a battle dish, breads, spreads and some vegetables, we are not allowed to order food if we want to eat something else. "

"We flew to London for a holiday, we were supposed to be from Thursday to Thursday but on Saturday night we realized they were going to go into quarantine, we advanced the flight and fell on the first flight going into isolation in a motel. We begged to be released for home and not isolation, they disagreed and said we had to meet some criteria. "We do not meet any of them for example, only if we made a connection flight through London and were there less than 12 hours then we can go to home isolation. We feel good, do not feel any symptoms or anything like that," the Israelis said. 

Passengers also said: "In London we do not have to walk on the street with masks, we did not want to get infected and took extra care, we went with masks everywhere but there no one wears masks, neither inside nor outside, as if there is no corona. We are supposed to leave here after ten days of Isolation and two tests.As far as we tried to keep the guidelines in London and I think we did not stick there, if one test came out positive, then it's just because we stuck in the country.We were an hour and a half bus without windows with people who did not wear masks throughout the trip, it was just irresponsible and there "There is a good chance that we will be caught in Corona by bus after we managed to take care of ourselves during the holiday."

Source: israelhayom

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