8:00: New restrictions including closure on Betar Illit and closing of the halls and event gardens

Following the worsening of the infection data, the ministerial committee imposed a closure on Betar Illit for a week from Wednesday at 08:00.The Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of Health said that in view of the decision, entry and exit to the city of Beitar Illit will be restricted, as well as traffic and business within the city itself. The motion for a resolution will be placed on the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee table as soon as possible.
The motion for a resolution will be placed on the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee table as soon as possible. Atar Illit has 268 active patients, 169 of whom were diagnosed this week.
Hospitals across the country have 86 in serious condition, of which 34 are respirators. Five Corona patients died yesterday, raising the number of dead from the beginning of the epidemic to 342. The number of active patients registered a record - 13,653.
A few hours before the closure decision was published, the Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Health, Professor Itamar Grotto, called Meir Rubinstein, Mayor of Beitar Illit, and informed him of the ministry's intention to close the city due to the rise in the number of infections.
In response, Rubinstein sent an angry letter to Health Minister Yuli Edelstein in which he attacked the decision. "As long as there is no effective evacuation procedure, the closure is not helpful and only intensifies the morbidity in the city and makes it incubating. The decision reveals a terrible failure in the treatment of the second wave."
 According to Rubinstein, in recent days, the Ministry of Health has repeatedly requested assistance in removing the adhesives from the city, in order to avoid the need to close, but was not answered. Tonight he attacked the ministry: "Notice of a closure that comes out at night, with most of the city's residents asleep, is a disgrace. The residents of Beitar Illit will wake up to a closed and closed city tomorrow without having to do so.
Today, new restrictions, including the closing of the halls and event gardens, will take effect. As of 8:00, there will be no more events in these places, but until then - within the limit of up to 50 participants.
Regarding restaurants, they are set to continue to operate but with a limit of up to 20 people in enclosed space and up to 30 people in open space and spacious tables. Tonight, the Corona Commission in the Knesset discussed this limitation, and has yet to approve the government's decree. This is because MK Yifat Shasha Biton asked the government representatives to get the full data.
MK Shasha Biton emphasized that in restaurants or on the beach, social interaction is different than in banqueting halls, and therefore one must explain why the 20-30 distribution was made in restaurants. There needs to be proper publicity to harness the public, ”she explained.
As things stand now, summer camps and youth movement activities for fifth graders and above will be canceled as part of the Corona restrictions. This is after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to accept the position of the Ministry of Health and the NSC over the position of Minister Ze'ev Elkin.
Elkin said it was a wrong decision. "It's a mistake to shut the camps out of the fifth grade or higher. The teens will roam the streets unattended, it will not be possible to follow the infection chain, which will be larger than if the students are camped in groups of 20. It is much safer for them to At camps, and that is without talking about the danger of staying in the street with inaction and using alcohol and drugs. "