According to the Health Ministry’s exit strategy, grades 7-10 are scheduled to return back to classrooms on Sunday. However, Education Minister Yoav Gallant, has been pushing to moving up the step.
“The Ministry of Education is prepared and ready to bring back 7-10 grades’ students in green, yellow and bright orange cities starting tomorrow. I hope and believe that the government will today adopt my proposal,” Gallant said in a video released on social media shortly began the meeting started.
“The violations in the secular sector as well as in the ultra-Orthodox sector are intolerable,” Netanyahu said at the beginning of the cabinet meeting, referring to the many illegal gatherings reported during the Purim festivities over the weekend.
Earlier in the day, coronavirus commissioner Prof. Nachman Ash warned that the large gatherings and parties in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem over Purim may require closing everything that has been reopened ahead of the Passover holiday.
“We are bringing the increase in infection rates in 10 days or two weeks, I have no doubt we will see it in the data,” Ash told Army Radio, adding that the option of another lockdown is “definitely on the table” if infection rates increase.
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“We will not endanger the public just to observe Seder night,” he pointed out.
During the government meeting, Transportation Minister Miri Regev is also expected to present an outline to ensure that Israelis abroad can come back to the country, also in order to allow them to participate in the March 23 elections.
The current restrictions – in place until Saturday – prevent Israelis from leaving or entering the country unless they receive a special permission from the appointed governmental commission.
“We need to get to a situation where every Israeli who wants to come home can return,” Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz said at the beginning of the meeting. “This can be achieved requiring tests before flying and isolation after.”
Gantz also called on the governmental committee to make its decisions public. On Friday, a report by channel 12…
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