Shopping malls, hotels, gyms, commercial and cultural activities, and grades 5-6 and 11-12 in green, yellow, and light orange cities are allowed to reopen on Sunday Coronavirus The cabinet made a decision on Monday. The ministers also agreed on a specific design for synagogues and the upcoming festival of Purim, which will already apply this Shabbat. According to the plan, some activities will be reserved for “green passport” holders, which will be granted to people who have been shot or recovered from the virus at least a week after their second coronavirus vaccine. These venues include hotels, gyms, pools, and cultural and sporting events. Children under 16 who cannot be vaccinated must take a negative test. Shopping malls, stores, libraries, museums and open-air markets will reopen under the “Purple Ribbon” standards, which include social distancing measures regardless of the vaccination status of customers. As you begin this upcoming Shabbat, synagogues and places of worship can choose between 50% green passport holder capacity or with a limit of 10 worshipers indoors and 20 outdoors. For Purim, the traditional holiday meal, it will be limited to core families. The Ministry of Health said it would organize a public relations campaign to convince people to only accept family members who are eligible for the green passport. Other forms of parades, parties and gatherings are prohibited.

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if (window.location.pathname.indexOf (“656089”)! = -1) {console.log (“hedva connatix”); document.getElementsByClassName (“divConnatix”)[0].style.display = “none”;} The plan was created in collaboration with United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni.In 2020, Purim events caused a peak of infections in both Israel and the diaspora. The public should stick to the rules and celebrate responsibly, otherwise there could be a new wave of infections, Coronavirus Commissioner Prof. Nachman Ash told Channel 12 on Monday. The cabinet also decided that further restrictions will be lifted from March 7th . Grades 7 to 10 will be reopened in green, yellow and light orange areas. In addition, cafes and small restaurants can once again welcome their guests according to the guidelines for purple ribbons and other restaurants according to the guidelines for green passports. The allowable gatherings will be expanded to 20 people indoors and 50 people outdoors. “I believe if the citizens of Israel are disciplined and most of them are disciplined and follow the gradual steps we set to reopen and if 570,000 people over the age of 50 who have not been vaccinated, not only will we none have further lockdown, but also completely overcome the coronavirus, “said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday in an interview on Channel 12. The agreement reached represents a compromise between The Ministry of Health, which was supported by Netanyahu, which wanted to reopen on February 23, and the blue and white ministers who this week pushed for the restrictions to be lifted. The meeting started with Netanyahu and Deputy Prime Minister Benny Gantz accusing each other of political games and Netanyahu’s coronavirus economic plan was “election bribery,” Gantz said. The cabinet will meet on Tuesday to discuss the economic plan and Thursday to investigate fur further openings in the education system. Earlier Monday, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein (Likud) said the Ministry of Health is investigating laws requiring unvaccinated teachers and workers who deal personally with customers to take a test every two days. “A teacher who is not vaccinated neglects the well-being of the students and their most important role: the protection of the children,” he said. Edelstein recently expressed support for the idea of ​​forcing teachers and other public officials to vaccinate. Almost four million people had received at least the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Monday, and 2.5 million had both. Around 2.2 million Israelis are already eligible for the green passport. The infection data continued to show steady, albeit slow, improvement. The reproductive rate, which measures the ability of the disease to spread, continued to decline and was 0.85. Some 3,446 new cases of the novel coronavirus were reported on Sunday, with 7.6% of the roughly 47,000 tests carried out returning positive, the Ministry of Health reported Monday morning. The number of cases of active coronavirus fell from around 70,000 a few days ago to less than 55,000.

Of those infected, 979 were in serious condition and 307 were ventilated, which also confirmed a slow but steady decline. The death toll rose to 5,406 overnight.