Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Wednesday that government officials are considering delaying the opening of the school year by a month.
Gantz told Walla News that since there are “only 6-7 school days” in September due to the Chagim, it may be worthwhile to wait a month in light of the current COVID wave.
Currently, schools are still scheduled to reopen on September 1. The prime minister’s office and education ministry will be holding a meeting early next week to make a decision about the matter.
Earlier this week, the government agreed that students in 8th to 12th grades in “red” cities will only attend in-person classes if at least 70% of the grade is vaccinated or recovered. Grades with less than 70% of vaccinated or recovered students will learn from home via Zoom.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Should it get to the point that it’s dangerous and Yeshivos won’t be able to open, I don’t think anyone should be upset. Because would it make sense to say that I don’t care if people will be harmed, after all I want to learn hilchos nezikin and retzichah, chai bahem etc. Etc.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores?country=ISR~SWE
Israel matches Sweden more or less vis-a-vie excess death and Sweden didn’t have a lockdown.
The health beuracrats are a bunch of unintelligent buffoons. There is no reason not to open the schools. Kids are at practically zero risk. B’H my boys are in a talmud torah and have started at the beginning of elul.
Aymdock – no. Sweden’s population is 10.4 million. Israel is 9 million. Israel had 970,000 cases, Sweden had 1.12 million cases. But Israel had 6,700 deaths and Sweden had over 14,000. More than twice as many for a similar population. So not having a lockdown was more than twice as deadly.