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The last passengers leave Ben Gurion Airport before the sky closes: "Hope to return another month"
The flight schedule is empty, the check-in counters are closed and the faces of passengers entering the airport do not show the routine excitement ahead of the holiday.
Flights to and from Israel will be stopped tonight at midnight for a month, but the fear of extending the deadline is evident during a visit to Ben Gurion Airport. "As soon as we heard, we hurried to buy a ticket."
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Keenan Cohen
Monday, 25 January 2021, 22:41
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In the video: Ben Gurion Airport is closed to flights in an attempt to block the entry of mutations (Photo: Reuters and the Knesset channel)
Ben Gurion Airport will be closed tonight at midnight and all flights to and from Israel will be suspended until the end of the month, but it is not at all certain that the deadline will be maintained.
Dr. Sharon Elrai Price, head of public health services at the Ministry of Health, estimated that the airport will remain closed for at least a month, and the final decision will depend on the intrusion of corona mutations into Israel
.
The flight schedule is empty, the check-in counters are closed and the faces of the passengers who entered the terminal did not show the routine excitement ahead of a vacation trip.
"As soon as we heard about the closure, we hurried to buy a ticket and do a corona check," said Shmuel Cohen, who was on his way to a flight to Paris with his wife Nelly.
This is not an unusual trip for them - their children live in the city, and they divide their time between Paris and Israel, three months there and three here.
This time there was a special urgency.
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A mirror image of the celebrations of the opening of the sky.
Ben Gurion Airport, today (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Asked if the sudden decision made him angry, he simply replies: "I agree with everything that is done to deal with this terrible disease. A friend of mine has passed away, people we know from the synagogue in Paris have passed away."
"There's nothing to do, and I do not understand those who constantly criticize the government," he added, "they do what they can."
After two doses of the vaccine, the two said they were less worried about the high morbidity in Europe, but would be even more careful than before not to endanger others there.
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"Do not understand the criticism."
Shmuel and Nelly Cohen (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Jack, a newcomer from Scotland, was also on his way to stay with his parents again.
The original flight was supposed to be the next day, but following the closure it was brought forward, and after receiving the message, he hurried to check at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
Upon receiving the result he reached the field.
Despite the uncertainty, he expressed his hope to return within a month.
Early flight.
Jack (Photo: Reuven Castro)
The flight schedule is empty.
Ben Gurion Airport, today (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Another passenger who divides his life between Israel and abroad is Yuval Appel, who hurried back to his family in Valencia, Spain after celebrating his father's 88th birthday. He hurried to check upon receiving the announcement of the flight stop yesterday afternoon, and at the same time found a flight ticket to Valencia via Paris. Relying on the first publications that said that Israeli citizens were more likely to leave - which was proven wrong - and because he did not believe the situation would change by the end of the month, he preferred to hurry up and leave
, as did the Cohen couple, not resentful of the sudden changes. Who did not at all begin to vaccinate patients and move between high waves of illness with no solution on the horizon, and welcomes the practical steps to deal with the virus.
Do not believe that the situation will change by the end of the month.
Apple (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Elrai Price clarified during the Knesset's Constitution Committee discussion that it is not yet known how long the sky will remain closed.
"We have not yet decided what the threshold for completion will be. I estimate the sky will be closed for at least a month so that we will be with about three million vaccinated," she said.
"We have been in quarantine for five weeks and only now are we able to lower the coefficient of infection. The British variant has a contribution to these infections of dozens of people in educational institutions."
In a discussion held yesterday in the government, the ministers voted in favor of the decision to close Ben Gurion Airport, except for the Minister of Immigration and Absorption, Pnina Temano Sheta, in protest of a delay in flying immigrants to Israel. "Contrary to what is said, we are ahead of the whole world." Did not do what we are going to do.
We are closing the hermetic state. "
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