The Knesset's Constitution Committee today (Wednesday) finally approved the exclusion of restaurants in the open seating area that require a distance of one and a half meters between tables.
The relief was approved following the demand of the committee for relief in open areas, which came into force on Tuesday.
Prior to the committee's vote on the exception, Ilana Gens, head of public health services, said that "the Ministry of Health has recommended a two-meter distance, although there are many countries where such a distance is set, and it is a kind of balance that allows the model to be applicable, uniform and reduce risks." .
Discussion of the Knesset's Constitution Committee, Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman
During the debate, MK Itamar Ben Gvir (Religious Zionism) said: “Ostensibly, we should have embraced the debate on a meter and a half between tables with two hands, but we drive the public crazy every time with a new regulation.
After all, it was about two meters in the original regulations and there was a scientific explanation according to the world health bodies.
The public is confused.
Where is the uniformity?
From a legal point of view, it is impossible for the definition of recovering and immunized to be different between two Knesset committees.
What legal test will it stand? "
The representative of the Ministry of Health at the hearing replied to MK Ben Gvir that the Ministry of Health did recommend a distance of two meters, but the decision made regarding the restaurants was agreed as a compromise.
MK Simon Davidson (Yesh Atid) said: “We sit for many weeks on regulations and understand the confusion of the plague, but there are regulations, like 1.5 meters, that cannot be enforced and not enforced.
Most delusional is that a child who is in a class with a verified can get to school, but in the afternoon will be in isolation.
How is it possible that in the morning he can be with dozens of children in the class, and can not go to the afternoon class? "The informal activity is no less important than the school."
The committee's chairman, MK Gilad Karib (Labor), summed up the discussion: "MK Ben Gvir's question accompanies us for many weeks.
Lessons must be learned if, God forbid, a fifth wave comes.
In this wave, instead of reaching a rational outline in advance, we had to do hand-downs here all the time.
A proportionate approach must be taken in advance. "
