Netanyahu tends to accept the outline of the Ministry of Health, which includes a return to online studies for the fifth-tenth grades. To a new path "
Despite breaking the record for the spread of the corona in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not yet set a date for convening the corona cabinet to discuss the necessary steps.
The Prime Minister's Office announced last night (Saturday) that such a meeting will be held in the coming days, but it has not been announced when the meeting will actually take place.
Netanyahu: "Many more than 9 million citizens will be vaccinated" // Photo: GPO
There is a serious disagreement among cabinet members as to the steps now required.
While Prime Minister Netanyahu, Health Minister Edelstein and the health system are demanding that a full and immediate closure be enforced, in blue and white opponents.
Minister Edelstein said today during a visit to a general clinic in Nazareth that the situation requires a full closure for two weeks.
"We are in a very difficult outbreak, probably in a more difficult situation than we were in early September. There will be no escape from difficult marches. We will come with a demand for a full closure for a period of two weeks. We must give this disease one strong blow and set out on a new path."
Edelstein estimated that by the beginning of April the state will be able to return to routine, since anyone who is interested will receive a vaccine.
However, in order to avoid the dire consequences of widespread morbidity, an immediate closure should be imposed.
Prime Minister Netanyahu believes that a full closure should be imposed for a short time.
Edelstein: "We are on a crazy rise in morbidity" // Photo: GPO
Education Minister Yoav Galant, who has so far fought to prevent the closure of the education system, also said today that it is necessary to stop the physical education of the fifth-tenth grades.
"I call on my colleagues in the government to unite behind the prime minister and immediately approve the outline for operating the education system during the closure period, as approved by the government and rejected by the Knesset Education Committee," Galant said.
In blue and white, however, they stand by their position that there is no need for a closure.
The party's chairman, Defense Minister Bnei Gantz, said that in the coming days he would make a situation assessment regarding the next steps and said that at this stage, it was necessary to resume business activities. The Defense Minister's office said that in a conversation with business representatives The morbidity that will come in the coming days to examine the trends and choose the desired course of action, so that the business will open as soon as possible, and that it will work in favor of approving the compensation required for business owners. "
Science Minister Yizhar Shai, who retired from a white brush but remained in office, took an even sharper stance.
Shai, who has served throughout the period holding the corona bag on behalf of Blue and White, believes there are encouraging signs of moderation and perhaps even a decline in the coefficient of infection: "We have time. "4 weeks or some sort of tightening of the restrictions. On the contrary, the models we saw in the assessment of the situation this morning show that it may be possible to settle for the current closure, which ends on Sunday in a week, without extension or extension for a short and known time."
In Minister Shai's opinion, there is no need to close the education system: "Such a step has no significant effect on the experts' models."
The Minister of Absorption, Pnina Temano Shata, also brushed off a white brush, expressing opposition to the closure.
"There is no reason to allow a full closure, certainly as the vaccines progress, the virus should not kill the economy and the public," Temano wrote on Twitter.