Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz has called for a 10-day nationwide lockdown to combat the sharp rise in coronavirus infections.
In an interview with Ynet, Steinitz said he believes that the country should enforce a closure, while still allowing Israelis to work.
He said that the government was too quick to reopen the economy in May, following the first nationwide lockdown in April, and did not invest enough in enforcing public-health directives.
Regarding Israel’s omission from the list of countries with a low COVID-19 infection rate, which means that Israeli visitors and tourists are banned from entering Europe, Steinitz said that it is “essential to the economy” that Israel remain connected to the rest of the world.
Steinitz said that being disconnected from Europe and the rest of the world for “more than two or three months” will damage “the basic mechanisms of the economy.”
“Aerial disconnection from the world is financially dangerous,” he said. “Sometimes, it is better to make it difficult for ourselves for two weeks in order to make it easier for the rest of the year.”
Thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday, protesting what they call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to address economic woes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
With economic stress deepening in recent weeks, many Israelis believe that the government has not done enough to compensate hundreds of thousands of workers who lost their jobs as a result of restrictions and shutdowns. Unemployment has surged more than 20 percent since the start of the coronavirus crisis. JNS.ORG
{Matzav.com Israel}
How exactly are they planning to combat it? Will they be using a sucker truck or sewer truck to drain the swamp? It would be interesting to make survey what’s the percentage of Matzav readers who believe the lockdown is to combat coronavirus medical infections?
Perhaps it would be wise the the Energy Minister to stick to issues related to his ministry and leave these issues to the Minister of Finance and Minister of Health.
Of course, we all well keenly know — from very recent experience — that this new “little” Lockdown #2 is NOT going to be for just “ten days” or “two weeks”!!!!!!!!!! Cut out the sick deceptions already!!!!!!!!!!
Please see the story at Beitar Lockdown Lifted As Chareidim Protest Closures.” The writeup relates how the minacity of Beitar in Eretz Yisroel had been put on a two-week lockdown, but a large contingent of Chareidim there staged a huge protest, and, Boruch Hashem, instead of a “lock” down, the government BACKED down!!
To those who protested, I emphatically say:
“THUMBS UP!!” “GOOD FOR YOU!!”
“TRIPLE OF TRIPLE OF TRIPLE DITTOS!!”
THESE LOCKDOWNS ARE TOTALLY NOT NECESSARY!!!!!!!!!!!
Like with most illnesses, in the realm of Natural Medicine, there most certainly ARE many good time-honored treatment techniques and remedies that, B’Ezras Hashem, can very effectively contain and reduce and, in numerous cases, even fully cure the Covid problem.
The real “problem” though, is that the (so-called) “official” government announcements and the (so-called) “mainstream” media and the (so-called) “mainstream” Modern Medical (so-called) “establishment” do not say a word about the natural cures. On the contrary, they try to massively censure and suppress and silence those voices trying to tell people natural cures. In many cases, government agents with law enforcement officers brutally bash into clinics that employ natural techniques; they shut down the offices, confiscate patient files, and throw the doctors in jail!!
(I apologize for a small typing error.) The last two sentences of my remark need to read:
On the contrary, they try to massively censure and suppress and silence those voices trying to tell people about natural cures. In many cases, government agents with law enforcement officers brutally bash into clinics that employ natural techniques; they shut down the offices, confiscate patient files, and throw the doctors in jail!!