Three officials in the tourism industry are expected to file petitions to the High Court in the coming days, with the aim of eliminating the sweeping isolation of the vaccinated, changing the policy of determining the red states and working to open the country to vaccinated foreign tourists.
"In every interview or committee in the Knesset, representatives of the Ministry of Health do not hide the fact that their main motivation in the restrictions on Ben Gurion Airport is to push the public to complete the third vaccine," said Tali Laufer, director of the Travel Ministries Association. "They will not achieve in another ten days. This implies that they intend to continue to extend the restrictions each time anew and all on the back of the tourism and aviation industry."
Laufer added: "The absurdity is that they are going to achieve the opposite result. Today, the main motivation to get vaccinated in the third dose is the trip abroad, as soon as they impair it, they eliminate the motivation."
Bennett with the eruption of the omicron: "Recommends not to fly abroad at the moment", credit: GPO
Finally, she said: "Without entering the specific countries that the Ministry of Health defines as red and which I have not yet seen meet the required criteria, it is important to understand that the constant statements in the media about the announcement and the common schedules and rumors - hurt humanity and without justification .
The petition of the Association of Travel Agencies will be filed by attorneys Assaf Priel, Yuval Bashan and Nadav Feinman.
"Huge damage to the industry"
The headquarters for open skies are expected to file the petition regarding the exemption of the vaccinated from the ban on traveling to the Reds.
According to them, vaccinated and unvaccinated can not be treated in the same way with respect to Omicron, because the vaccine protects against a serious disease, according to a series of recently published studies.
"We would like to perform the three days of isolation only if the percentage of vertebrates returning from them is higher than a certain threshold," the headquarters said in the open air, adding: It is negligible in relation to the violation of the travel ban. "
Kedem was sent to the High Court yesterday morning and the petition is expected to be filed in the coming days. The petition on their behalf will be filed by attorneys Moshe Magen and Tal Shachar.
Menachem Abadi, the owner and CEO of Magma, commented on the petition, which is expected to be filed: This immediate and disproportionate closure at short notice has caused enormous damage and economic losses to all those involved in the outbound tourism industry. According to the criteria set by the Ministry of Health itself, which countries should be considered red and banned from entering Israel, it turns out that there is a contradiction between the same criteria and the data presented by the same Ministry of Health in African countries. "A large part of African countries are countries where the percentage of morbidity is very low and even smaller than in Israel, and it is not possible for the Ministry of Health to recommend and the government to make an arbitrary and sweeping decision."
He added: "Knowing that the booster vaccine properly protects the vaccinated against the new variant (and this issue has been approved by a number of medical sources) once again raises questions about the decision-making procedure and criteria, which leads to ongoing and accumulated mistrust in the system. It is to turn to the justice system, which will check and decide. "
It should be noted that we contacted the Ministry of Health to try and understand what the full criteria are for determining the red states, but we did not receive an answer.
The Ministry of Health claimed that if 10% of all verified people are diagnosed with Omicron, the country may turn red, but from a test we conducted, there are red countries that do not meet these conditions and are still defined as red.
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