Starting tomorrow at 20:30, and every evening until Sunday morning, various restrictions on the holiday will take effect • Allowed: to get vaccinated and receive medical treatment • Forbidden: hosting, gatherings and distribution of parcels • And what about reading the scroll?
• The night closure and you: all the details
The government yesterday (Tuesday) approved the restrictions on preventing gatherings during Purim.
Regulations include a night curfew to be held on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 8:30 pm to 5 am.
Similar to the previous closure, the restrictions will include a ban on staying in another person's home, a reduction in occupancy on public transport and a limit of up to a kilometer from the house.
It is important to note that although the regulations have been approved by the government at the moment, they have not received Knesset approval, and therefore no exceptions have been published yet.
As a result, there may be further changes over the next 24 hours and it is advisable to keep up to date.
When is it allowed to walk outside?
It is allowed to walk anywhere until 20:30, then there is a curfew that lasts until 05:00 in the morning, during which it is allowed to reach a distance of one kilometer from the house.
I was vaccinated in the evening, can I go get vaccinated?
Yes.
Vaccination is a medical treatment, and it has been exempted from the restrictions like the other medical treatments.
PM Netanyahu on the night curfew on Purim: "We do not want to repeat what happened last year" // Photo: Prime Minister's Spokeswoman
What will be left open at night?
All the physical and mental medicine and emergency services that have been excluded in the other closures are operating as usual, and are allowed to be reached 24 hours a day.
What about reading a scroll in the evening?
On Thursday the sunset is at 17:39, so it will be possible to read a scroll and finish it before closing.
Since the rules of closure apply only at 20:30, it will be possible for vaccinators to gather in synagogues according to the rules of the green sign in the evening reading.
The rest will be read in open spaces and according to the rules that apply today.
What about reading the scroll in the morning?
The scroll should be read indoors for up to 10 people, and in an open space for up to 20 people.
On Sunday in Jerusalem, the rules of the green sign will apply again.
Do the rules also apply in green cities?
The rules apply throughout the country regardless of the color of the city at the color traffic light.
What about hosting?
From five in the morning until eight-thirty in the evening, a gathering of 10 people in a closed space, and 20 in an open space is allowed.
During curfew hours it is forbidden to be in another person's house.
Am I vaccinated with a green passport?
Yes, quarantine rules apply to everyone and all rules have been set without diagnosis.
I got stuck somewhere far from home near the start of the closure, what to do?
It is permissible to return home even after the closure takes effect.
Is it allowed to hold an urban or large event?
There will be no major Purim events this year such as "Adlaide" processions, conventions, shows and so on.
Purim celebrations in schools around the country // Photo: Newsenders
What about the distribution of parcel deliveries?
During curfew hours, it is forbidden to send parcels.
What about sports activities?
It is allowed to train and go out to open parks for up to twenty people according to the rules set at all hours of the day.
When it comes to gyms, the rule will be like any place allowed to open: up to 10 people.
What about the restaurants and cafes?
In fact no reference has been made to them in the guidelines and they will operate under the same rules, up to 10 people inside, 20 people outside, as well as deliveries and takeaways.
What about the evening of Shushan Purim?
The closure ends on Sunday morning, so apparently it will be possible in Jerusalem to celebrate according to the instructions during Sunday.
In which cases will it be possible to pass the restrictions?
Departure of an employee to the workplace;
Stocking up on essential medicines, food and products and receiving essential services;
Receiving medical care or receiving essential social care;
blood donation;
Access to activities in bodies, institutions or frameworks or activities, services or programs permitted by law or regulations thereunder;
A visit by a person with a disability staying in an out-of-home setting by his first-degree family members or by his guardian, or a visit by a disabled person to a first-degree family member or by his or her guardian, subject to the provisions of a home isolation order and conditions to maintain well-being In the instructions of the principal;
Attendance at a wedding, funeral, religious ceremony to commemorate a bar or bat mitzvah, covenant or religious ceremony similar to those in other religions of a close family member (grandparent, parent, spouse or parent, child, grandson, brother or sister and their children, uncle or aunt) Or the participation of a marriage counselor at the wedding and of one other person serving until the wedding in coordination with the marriage counselor;
Departure of a woman for baptism in a pure mikveh;
The transfer of a minor between his or her parents living separately or the transfer of a minor for whom the responsible parent is required to leave for a vital purpose and there is no responsible place of residence where the minor can be left under his supervision;
Vital animal care;
Arrival at the Knesset;
Participation in a demonstration;
Arriving at a legal proceeding to which that person is a party, has status or is required to participate in it;
Assistance to a person who has difficulty or distress requiring assistance;
Departure of a person from outside Israel, according to Regulation 2 of the Regulations Special powers to deal with the new corona virus (temporary order);
Departure from one permanent residence to another, including departure from a place of residence to isolation within the meaning of a home isolation order, departure from an educational or therapeutic institution used as a permanent residence to his place of residence and moving house;
Exit for the purpose of sports activities of an individual or persons living in the same place, from the place of residence, other than by motor vehicles;
Exit up to a distance of up to 1,000 meters and from the place of residence provided that he did not leave a place of residence other than his place of residence;
Your exit A person with a disability, whose disability requires him to enter the public space at a distance of more than 1,000 meters from his place of residence, together with one escort.
