After a full day of squabbling, name-calling, arguing, and walkouts, members of the Corona Cabinet decided that as of Friday, Israel will face a hermetic lockdown for two weeks until Simchas Torah. The upcoming lockdown will considerably tighten the rules on the Israeli public from the current lockdown that people are in.
According to the upcoming rules, all stores and businesses that are non-essential will be closed. A prohibition will be in effect outlawing any gathering aside from their nuclear family. It is still unclear what will befall the necessary preparations for Sukkos including the purchasing of arba minim, and materials for building sukkahs.
Shuls will be allowed to convene only in outdoor spaces and will have up to 20 participants. Regarding Yom Kippur a special compromise will be reached that will allow shuls to operate with a minimum number of participants, in a similar style to how they operated over Rosh Hashanah. Over Sukkos, shuls will return to only functioning outdoors.
Another aspect of the new proposal will be the complete closure of Ben Gurion airport for all departing flights. Only flights entering Israel will be allowed to land, and those will only allow returning citizens.
People will be allowed to participate in public protests, an issue which the Blue and White party fought tooth and nail over, only within a kilometer from their house.
The decision of the cabinet needs to pass through the Knesset Plenum and the Legal Committee before it becomes law.
The government convened at 10:30PM Israel time to approve the new lockdown regulations and it is expected that the law will be ratified in the Knesset on Thursday during the day after the legal committee of the Knesset prepares the final parts of the law and approves them.
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri who is a member of the Corona Cabinet said: “We are in a state of terrible emergency. This is made clear by the fact that they are shutting down the economy again. Tefillah is the only permitted gathering that will be allowed, and that is due to its importance. We need to recall that on Pesach, we had 700 ill people per day and we davened on balconies. Now we have ten times that and we are able to daven outside in minyanim as long as we wear masks.”
Finance Minister Amir Peretz said during the meeting: “Public confidence has been broken because every two days we make a different proposal. The decisions do not last more than two days. I propose to accept the outline prepared by the attorney-general, coronavirus commissioner and the director-general of the Health Ministry.”
Likud MK Haim Katz, who chairs the powerful Likud central committee, said the government and Knesset should be dispersed. Referencing the squabbling that is hamstringing the government over the issue of public protests Katz lamented, “Nothing is working.”
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12 Responses
Pure stupidity
And what will be after the lockdown?
Will COVID disappear?
They are not building up their immune system with supplements, nor are they giving Hydroxychloroquine + Zinc + Vitamin D
Only in the Zionist shmad State are shuls essentially forbidden while protests are permitted (within a kilometer of one’s house).
This is a supposedly “Jewish” (sic) State.
What sort of unthoughtout nonsense is this: “Another aspect of the new proposal will be the complete closure of Ben Gurion airport for all departing flights. Only flights entering Israel will be allowed to land, and those will only allow returning citizens.” Which foreign airline is going to fly Israeli citizens to Israel then leave empty? If the Israeli government wants an air bridge for its own citizens then let it charter planes on the open market.
Sounded like an ok plan until they allowed protesting without limit on participants. Shouldn’t protesting also be limited to 20 people?
Makes sense but how does allowing protests, in any form, make any sense??
What’s the problem? Make the minyan in form of a protest.
Every religious activity, being learning, davening keeping mitzvos is in fact a protest against the zionist shmad state.
In government, the biggest pandemic is CLUELESSNESS-20.
Why all the dividing comments? That is not what we need right now. No state is perfect. Believe it or not the us is not perfect and unsurprisingly neither is Israel perfect. The only one who is perfect is hakodesh Baruch Hu! What we need right now is the come together and work with each other. I’m not a navi but just a pashute yid. All I can conclude from the world right now is that if we just worked with the system instead of against it we would not be in this situation right now. If we all just wore masks and quarantined when we had symptoms we wouldn’t be in this mess right now. And now all we have left is each other. And the only one know who can cure us of this mageifa is hakodesh Baruch hu. So dividing amongst ourselves is nothing but an Aveira. I understand the hypocrisy of banning shul but allowing protest; but what will being divisive solve. It’s about time we try to actually work with the system instead of complaining. The world is the not the perfect world we imagined it would be when we were children. We need to get over that fact. Look chas vchalilah there might be some restrictions on where we can daven. But those are the times we live in! Make the best of them, learn and daven harder instead of complaining online! I pray that Hakodesh Baruch Hu brings an end to our suffering and brings mashiach!
I don’t get why people aren’t getting this. The Israeli govt wants to protect the frum jews, so they asur minyanim. They don’t care about the protestors, so they let them protest, less headache for them if they get it 😂.
The truth is, for all my hatred of zionism, the right to protest is actually the most democratic, freedom-friendly aspect of the edicts. In the US it is protected by the first amendment, and if hindered, actually creates a mass assault on freedom, which is not the case of closing shuls temporarily for the purpose of prevention of mass spread of disease, although this will be an unpopular opinion here. Hindering the right to protest in this case opens the door to any future government being able to do the same in the name of public safety. I’m not saying that people should protest now in large groups, and it would be stupid to do so, but having the right to do so is the hallmark of a free country, even with all its flaws.
Because of Israel’s actions, many lives will be saved. Thank G-d for Israel.
I shutter at how many lives will be lost in Monsey, Kiryat Joel, and Boro Park. It is very sad!!!
@Chaimvolozhiner your comment here is one of the most thoughtful and beautiful things I’ve read in a while. Do you have children in shidduchim? I’d love to have mine marry yours. Yirbu kmoscha biyisrael!