When will the tests for children be canceled and how will the guidelines affect the holiday?

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The government has approved a series of new easing following the decline of the fifth wave.

Among other things, middle school students will not be required to be tested as early as this coming Thursday and Israel will be open to tourists, even without the vaccinated.

So when will the regulations take effect and what test will you still be required to perform back from abroad? Walla! Makes an order

Meirav Cohen

20/02/2022

Sunday, 20 February 2022, 22:00 Updated: 22:15

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In the video: Queue examination in Tel Aviv (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, and the Minister of Health, Nitzan Horowitz, announced today (Sunday) a series of facilitations in the corona inspections in the education system as well as in passenger inspections at Ben Gurion Airport. ? Walla! Makes order.

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The facilitations in the education system

• The outline of the weekly tests in the middle schools will be discontinued starting this coming Thursday, February 24th.

• The schedule of weekly tests in elementary schools and kindergartens will be discontinued on Thursday, March 10th.

The outline in the education system will be canceled starting Thursday (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The facilities at Ben Gurion Airport

• The requirement to perform an antigen test prior to boarding will be eliminated

• Israelis entering Israel will only be required to perform a PCR test upon landing in Israel

• The obligation to isolate Israelis who are not vaccinated will be abolished, subject to a negative result in the PCR test at Ben Gurion Airport

• Tourists of all ages, vaccinated and unvaccinated, will be allowed to enter Israel, subject to two PCR tests, prior to takeoff and landing in Israel.

• These reliefs will take effect on Tuesday, March 1st

"Match between the indices and the expectations of the public"

At today's cabinet meeting, Bennett addressed the decline in morbidity and how to proceed.

"There needs to be a match between our metrics and the situation on the ground, and what we project to the public and expect from it," he said.

"In order to maintain the public's trust and ensure that the citizens of Israel implement the guidelines and decisions that the government makes, we must start when the situation improves - and it improves significantly."

Last Thursday, the Ministry of Health recommended stopping institutional antigen testing starting March 1 and allowing PCR testing for the entire population.

This, during a discussion held by senior ministry officials with Prime Minister Bennett that day.

Even then, the ministry explained that the reason for the recommendation was the decrease in morbidity, which makes it possible to provide more reliable tests.

Also, due to the fact that the reliability of the tests decreases as the morbidity fades.

The debate became heated during a debate on the tourism outline, in which the Prime Minister demanded that tourists be allowed to enter Israel for any tourist who wished unconditionally.

The Ministry of Health then objected to this demand, but this was finally approved with the concessions announced by the government today.

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