The Constitution Committee approved today (Sunday) that children with a disability card will receive an exemption from the green card.
In addition, the committee approved a number of regulations for Rosh Hashanah and the outline of prayers at the Western Wall.
According to regulations approved by the committee, a PCR test of a "protective education" for children will be valid for a green mark for a week, instead of 72 hours.
Children with a disability certificate are exempt from a corona check at the entrance to places operating in green (instead of the previous hourly provision, which allowed an exemption only for a child with a disability certificate that grants an exemption from queuing).
The prayers at the Western Wall without a green mark
In addition, the outline of the restriction of occupancy for prayers at the Western Wall was approved, and the Ministry of Health complied with the committee's chairman, MK Gilad Karib, who wanted to warn those coming to the Western Wall plaza that the prayers would be held without a green sign.
Knesset members Karib and Simcha Rotman said of this: "It is not too late to produce an outline of prayers in the plaza that were divided into green and divided into capsules without a green mark."
MK Gilad Karib in the Constitution Committee // Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman Noam Moskowitz,
The prayers at the Western Wall will be held under an occupancy limit of 8,000 people, which will be divided into at least 15 disqualifications.
Responsibility for regulating entrants will be placed on the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, which has been defined as the "operator".
In addition, the foundation will appoint ushers who will inform the residents of the place about the obligation to wear a mask.
The regulations make it clear that a prayer house operating with a purple sign (up to 50 worshipers) does not have to operate according to the occupancy limit of one person to 7 square meters (yes subject to a crowd limit, 50 in a building, 100 in an open area).
The number of worshipers at the Western Wall will be limited // Photo: Western Wall Heritage Foundation,
The police have promised that there will be no selective enforcement and that there will be no easing of enforcement in relation to the prayer numbers on holidays, following the committee's chairman MK Kariv, regarding media reports about the police commissioner's meeting with representatives of the ultra-Orthodox public.
The validity of corona tests will be extended
Another approved regulation extends the validity of PCR tests on Rosh Hashanah, so that the validity of all PCR tests (public and private) will be 96 hours instead of 72. This is because during the holiday the results may be delayed.
Corona tests in Be'er Sheva // Photo: Dudu Greenspan,
Under pressure from the Constitution Committee, the Ministry of Health undertook that the number of test stations deployed throughout the country on the eve of the holiday and on the holiday itself would not be less than the number of stations operating on weekends on a regular basis.
In addition, the committee members demanded that the following regulations exclude the pools and restaurants, in an open area, from the green mark.
The regulations were extended until September 15, so that the committee can re-examine the outline in relation to Yom Kippur and Sukkot.