Ministry of Health has decided to cancel the layout of the bracelets in malls and shopping centers

The Ministry of Health has decided to cancel the layout of the bracelets in malls and shopping centers. After an office discussion, it was decided that green label holders would not be marked separately from visitors who come in to consume essential services. At this stage it is not clear what the enforcement of the green sign restrictions at the entrance will look like.
The decision follows criticism from business owners in the malls and the mall owners themselves. The malls claimed that enforcement of the regulations would be impossible. The owners of the Azrieli group appealed to the ministers, claiming that the authorities should enforce the precedent regulations, calling it an "experiment in marking citizens" as a result of a "hasty decision that makes no sense."
The Ofer Malls group also warned that it would appeal to the High Court to overturn the decision on the green label, claiming that it was "unequal and discriminatory." It is neither our job nor our authority to mark people, we certainly will not be the only ones in the country - it is a violation of privacy, we should not publicly mark the health or medical condition of anyone. "
At the same time, Bennett and Horowitz agreed that vaccinated and recovering people who return to Israel from red countries will be able to sign the "agreement" after the test at Ben Gurion Airport, thus maintaining the insulation at home and not in the motel. C, and then transferred to home isolation for a week.
In addition, in order to encourage immunization, the vaccinated in the first dose will be able to receive a temporary green label, which will be used by them until after receiving the second dose and the beginning of the period of eligibility for the green label. This is despite the fact that the level of protection of vaccinators in the first dose is significantly lower than the protection received a week after receiving the second dose.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz announced Tuesday that starting Friday, it will be mandatory to display a green pass at the entrance to closed shopping centers, including malls. According to the guidelines, which will take effect after the approval of the Knesset and the Knesset's Constitution Committee, any person who presents a green card that will be digitally approved will receive a bracelet in a solid color, and it will allow free movement throughout the compound.
Exemption from displaying a green label in closed centers will only be given to those who request essential services - and the list of services will be formulated by professionals and the Attorney General. Children and adults vaccinated with the first vaccine only will receive a temporary green label, and it will be valid for 30 days from the date of receipt of the first vaccine. Bennett also ordered an examination of the extension of the criteria for defining red states whose entry is prohibited for Israeli residents, after the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday that England and Denmark would be included in this list.
On Monday, there were 744 people diagnosed with corona in Israel. 111 of them have returned from abroad in the last ten days. The most prominent countries from which infected people came are the United States, France, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. Of those infected with the micron.
Bennett and Horowitz also announced that from Friday vaccinated and recovering who will return from red states will enter a week of home isolation and will eventually be required to undergo a PCR test. If they get a negative answer, they will be released from isolation. Unprotected people returning from red states will be referred for isolation in a motel until the results of a PCR test - if the test is negative, they will be transferred to a week of home isolation. If it is positive, they will stay in the motel until recovery.
The Minister of Strategic Planning in the Prime Minister's Office, Eli Avidar, wrote on his Twitter account in response to the decision regarding the malls that this is a "hasty step, without epidemiological logic and regardless of reality. This is a blow to business owners, and a blow to citizens. And the culprits are those who give this madness a hand. "
Fashion chains and malls warn: we will not implement the green label. "We are not going to label our customers as vaccinated or unvaccinated. We are not putting a green bracelet on people, period," said Shahar Turgeman, one of the heads of the Malls and Fashion and Commerce Forum, which includes hundreds of chains and leading mall groups.
"The previous government made a lot of stupid decisions but this goes beyond all their stupidity. We are required to impose a stigma on our unvaccinated customers and we will not cooperate with it. Businessmen cannot be required to spit in their customers inside. The police are welcome to hand us fines if they want but will not move ", said.
Turgeman's remarks come after earlier tonight (Tuesday) Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz announced that starting Friday, it will be mandatory to display a green sign at the entrance to closed shopping centers as well.
To date, the malls and chains that populate them have managed to evade the green mark derivation, which only approves entry for vaccinated or negative corona test exhibitors. Their claim all along has been that the malls also house essential businesses, including supermarkets and pharma stores, so it will be impossible to enforce the green label in them. Now the Ministry of Health and the Prime Minister have presented an outline that ostensibly solves the problem raised by the malls and chains.
Chains and malls also argue that there is no health rationale behind imposing a green label requirement on malls because street shops and stores located in open centers can enter and stay together indoors with the unvaccinated.
Networks have a tradition of fighting government decisions since the outbreak of the corona crisis. In the first months of the outbreak of the corona plague, it was claimed that restrictions on their activities would lead to many collapses. The chains demanded and received compensation from the state, after threatening mass layoffs if they did not accept their request. In the end, however, the malls and chains emerged from the crisis strengthened: restrictions on going abroad, new rich people and money saved by some of the public, along with streamlining and strengthening the shekel, led to an improvement in the sales and profitability of most of them.