Homeland Security Minister Amar Bar-Lev said this morning (Saturday) that at the last Corona cabinet meeting, he recommended that its members postpone the start of the school year for the month, from September 1 to October 1.
"I do not understand what logic it is to start on September 1 when there are only six school days in the entire month (following the Tishrei holidays, US) and when the morbidity curve is as it is today," Bar-Lavan told journalist Yoav Krakowski at a cultural event in Ramat Aviv.
The minister added that "School children under the age of 12 and youth over this age who have not yet been vaccinated are the main distributors of the Delta strain, so the postponement will help bend the morbidity curve during September. The Cabinet has not yet accepted my recommendation, but I appreciate that The green mark, when I called on the Corona Cabinet to apply it two weeks before the Cabinet decided on it, even in this case I finally accepted it. "
Students make their way to school (archive) // Photo: Liron Moldovan,
According to data from the Ministry of Health published yesterday, 6,083 people were found infected with the corona virus on Tuesday.
Since 122,934 tests were performed to detect the virus on Tuesday, the positive rate is 5.02%.
There are currently 462 patients in critical condition in Israel, 75 of them respirators.
The coefficient of adhesion is 1.35.
The opening of the school year in about two weeks is causing great controversy among many elements in Israel, whether in the government or in senior education bodies.
Israel Today has learned that the secretary general of the Teachers' Union, Yaffa Ben-David, on Wednesday addressed Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz demanding that education teams receive the third dose of the vaccine against the virus, in order to be more protected in classrooms ahead of the start of the school year.
In a letter Ben-David sent to Horowitz, she wrote: "In recent days, I have received dozens of inquiries from teachers and defenders asking us to work with the Ministry of Health, in order to allow any interested employee to receive the third dose of the vaccine, thus making them feel safer and more corona protected." .
According to her, most of the referrals are received from the special education teaching staff, who, as we recall, are still working in the frameworks and want to receive the third dose of the vaccine right now.
At the end of her letter, Ben-David wrote: "We are confident that you have the authority to instruct the health funds to allow teaching staff to receive the third dose of vaccine before the start of the school year."
Minister of Internal Security Amar Bar-Lev at a cultural event in Ramat Aviv,
The return of about 2.2 million students and about 200,000 teaching staff to schools raises great concern in the Teachers' Union, because the staff will be in direct contact with millions of students across the country.
Against the background of the continuing increase in coronary heart disease, there is a fear that many teachers will be infected with the virus because children up to the age of 12 are not required to be vaccinated, which may lead to a further jump in morbidity.
