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‘No place to limit gatherings, it takes us straight to the world of compensation,’ Finance Min. Liberman says.

By: INN Staff

The Coronavirus Cabinet on Tuesday evening approved the proposal to require starting on Monday a Green Pass for all stores, and an expanded Purple Pass for all malls.

In addition, it was agreed that in cities with high infection rates (orange and red), in-person studies will only take place in classes where at least 70% of students are vaccinated or recovered.

Prior to these decisions, a sharp disagreement broke out in the Coronavirus Cabinet, between Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) and Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, head of Israel’s public health services.

According to Channel 12 News, Liberman said, “So far, in the entire world, around 12 people have died of Omicron.” This claim was revealed to be untrue.

“When it comes to Omicron’s influence, I don’t think that right now there is room to take steps, such as, for example, limiting [gatherings] to 100 people, 300 people. There’s no place for that, and that takes us straight into the world of compensation,” he said.

“Honored Finance Minister, we have presented the data from South Africa, including at the government meeting, which I do not know if you took part in or did not take part in,” Dr. Alroy-Preis responded. “We know that in tests of neutralizing the virus, there is a problem in neutralizing it with just two doses of the Pfizer [vaccine].”

“We have in our country over one million who did not receive the booster dose, additional people who are within 3-6 months after their second dose, and another large population which has not received a first and second dose. So these statements that we are a vaccinated country–we simply need to know the data and to understand that it’s not so.”

In a related development, INN has reported that the ministerial committee on fighting the coronavirus (the Coronavirus Cabinet) convened on Tuesday evening to discuss the continued handling of the Omicron strain.

Updated national and global morbidity data was presented by Health Ministry professionals. The action plan that was formulated in recent days was also discussed.

Following are the Cabinet’s decisions:

  • Malls and commercial facilities

– Malls will operate on the Purple Badge format, according to the occupancy ratio of 1:15 (one person per 15 square meters)

– Entry to stores larger than 100 square meters – both in open facilities and in malls and closed shopping facilities – will be allowed subject to presentation of a Green Pass. The Green Pass requirement will also apply to the employees of these stores.

– Food stalls in malls will provide take-away service only to customers upon presentation of a Green Pass.

– Entry to restaurants inside malls will be upon presentation of a Green Pass, according to the current format for restaurants.

– The Green Pass in malls and commercial facilities will not apply to places that provide essential services, which will continue to operate according to the current format (Purple Badge, occupancy ratio of 1:7).

  • Education system

– Grades 1-12 in red and orange communities – only classes in which at least 70% of pupils have received the first dose of the vaccine – will have frontal learning. Classes in which less than 70% of pupils have been vaccinated will learn online.

             (www.IsraelNationalNews.com)

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