Corona cabinet: street stores will stay closed until November 8th but synagogues will open Sunday

The Corona Cabinet has decided Thursday night not to open the street stores until next Sunday, despite the demand of Finance Minister Israel Katz. According to the decision tonight, shortly after midnight, the opening of street shops will be allowed from November 8, on terms to be agreed by the Ministries of Health and Finance.
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, who called for unity decisions, voted against following the deviation from the original outline of relief every two weeks. Following this, clashes broke out between the ministers, just before the vote in the debate that took place in Zoom. In the end, both Katz and Edelstein objected to the trade clause in the decision.
It was decided to bring the synagogues open as early as next Sunday, although according to the original outline they were only supposed to open in a little over two weeks. The maximum number of worshipers will be the limit of the gathering - ten inside, 20 outside. In addition, it was also decided that the B & Bs will open on Sunday, under an outline adapted for nuclear families and without the use of dining rooms or public pools.
If the morbidity drops earlier to a weekly average of less than 500 infected a day, it will be possible to bring forward the opening of street shops. These in any case do not include shopping centers and markets - but only retail-retail.
According to the original plan, the street shops were supposed to open on November 15 (like the synagogues), but in the past week the Corona Cabinet has been discussing several times the early opening of this coming Sunday. At the same time, it was decided to reduce the exit layout to six stages.
The decision to open the B & Bs was made following pressure from Tourism Minister Orit Farkash-Hacohen, who acted on the issue. "After my many efforts, I am very pleased with the decision of the Corona Cabinet tonight to bring forward the opening of B & Bs to nuclear families from this coming Sunday," they said. "Go out and have fun and thus also help the rural tourism industry, only we all have a responsibility to keep the rules and the health of us all."
In a lengthy debate in the Corona Cabinet, Katz tried to persuade ministers of his position to advance the opening of street shops, calling the health ministry "opaque," but his Twitter tweet led the prime minister to say that "whoever tweets in the middle of a debate should not be a cabinet member."
Netanyahu proposed at the opening of the hearing last night to open the street shops next Sunday, and not next - or when the morbidity rate drops below 500 people infected per day. He noted that this was a proposal by the Deputy Prime Minister Bnei Gantz, whose purpose was an "intermediate stage" between the second stage and the third stage of the exit from the quarantine.
Katz expressed his opposition at length, saying, among other things: "The Ministry of Health made a mistake in the past when it did not allow the trade to open, that is four billion shekels a week. "Both the Ministry of Finance has expressed a position and the Ministry of Health, but this dialogue has almost no meaning. It is the position of the Ministry of Health that determines, and we will say more than that, there is no compromise here."
Health Minister Edelstein, on the other hand, demanded that the outline be approved as it is - opening the stores in just two weeks: "Our position is clear and well-founded. We want to make the cabinet's decision on the two-week steps between the stages, there is a very big risk. "If we are careful. The prime minister has stated that the exit will be responsible and graded, if we take everything next to it, it will not be so."
Ganz said that "we must stay in a conservative outline. We are told that we need to go down to numbers 100-150 on the way to the total exit, and we are not there. Efforts should be made in all red cities, including through the defense system, and we should also focus on the Arab sector. ". The outgoing corona projector, Prof. Roni Gamzo, said there are 7 cities examining whether it will be necessary to impose a closure on them.
"An improved purple mark should be brought to small businesses and malls," Netanyahu said. "I'm glad my son and I are coming together for the outline. We should come as Gabi Ashkenazi said already on Sunday with proposals for red and maybe even orange cities."
Market Traders Association Chairman Tali Friedman, chairman of the Mahane Yehuda Market Merchants Committee, attacked Health Minister Edelstein and announced that business owners will open next week: “We have decided to unite and act as one force, otherwise there will be nothing to save. First, next week none of us will participate in the debate in the Knesset's Economics Committee on the subject of markets. Second, we call on the Prime Minister to dismiss the Minister of Health immediately. His conduct and decisions are illogical and detached from reality. "
"We call on Likud members to call on those who, in our opinion, are acting as flutists from Hamlin to open their eyes and face the fact that the markets are collapsing and families are being destroyed," she said. "And for those who ask what's going on here, go to full writers, beauty salons and hairdressers and ask themselves - who are we working for? On Sunday none of us, the chairmen, will prevent a merchant from opening the business and bringing his bread home. "We have to work in the markets. We will fight for our right to earn a living."

Back to school in the lower grades: The Corona Cabinet decided Thursday morning that first- and fourth-grade students will return to study this coming Sunday for four days a week. Classes in these classes will be held in the form of half-class capsules. The cabinet will resume discussions in the afternoon and discuss the demand to open the street shops as early as Sunday. There seems to be a majority for this intention.
According to the outline of the Ministry of Education, first and second grades will study in fixed and separate groups of up to half the number of students in the original class. In an original class in which the number of students does not exceed 20 - the whole class will be considered as a fixed and separate group. Grades 3-4 will be taught in regular groups of up to 20 students per class.
Afternoon classes: Kindergarten and first- and second-graders who participate in the afternoon class will be in the same organic class they stayed with during school hours. The afternoon group will not exceed 28 students - if it consists of more than one group and up to three organic morning groups from the same age group.
Initially, the Cabinet stated that studies in grades 1-2 will be repeated in a three-day format at school and three days at home. But yesterday, Education Minister Yoav Galant proposed an outline for extending the return of studies for these grades and grades 3-4 to four days a week.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the beginning of the discussion in the Corona Cabinet that "after talks I had yesterday with the Minister of Education, the Minister of Health and the chairman of the local government, Haim Bibbs, we decided to start with the first education outline of first and second graders at least in two weeks. The first ".
He added: "Within these two weeks we will examine whether there is a possibility to go to another alternative which is unified classes, but it requires the creation of double afternoons and should be organized logistically and budgetarily. But it is not practical for Sunday and we do not delay the decision, so we set out with the current outline ".
Outgoing Corona projector Prof. Roni Gamzo said at the hearing that "there are a number of cities we are focusing on and we are asking about the education system whether to open normally there. These are flashing cities and we will see them later." Prime Minister Netanyahu commented: "I want to make the decisions today, people need to be prepared for such things. Here we must decide at all whether we are acting against aliyah in the Arab sector and we must address it."
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri teased Gamzo: "When you said you congratulated the ultra-Orthodox sector on the decline, then I realized I saw right." Gamzo replied: "In the ultra-Orthodox society, along with all the respect that needs to be said, there is a warning point: a decrease in the number of tests with a positive test rate is good. We need to return the amount of tests to beat the plague. It is important to preserve the achievements."
Deri: My explanation, I appreciate what has happened in the last few days that the number of tests has decreased. This is because of the project of testing in meetings. All yeshivot members are not included in the cities because they enter the Yeshivot Student Bank and not in the cities. That could be the explanation. "
"In Arab society, we see infections from weddings and returning from abroad"
Gamzo added: "Tests are extremely important. A person goes into isolation and stops sticking, that's what we want to keep in mind. Education. We have not yet discussed this with the Ministry of Education and it should be in partnership with them. In Arab society we see contagions from weddings and back from abroad.
Interior Minister Deri stated: "The Arab sector is not isolated, they sit with us and work with us. I ask the Minister of Finance - we have agreed on a clear division of labor between the Ministry of the Interior and Defense. Until now we have not resolved this issue with the Ministry of Finance. We do not transfer the money to the local authorities that will take over the situation. " Gamzo commented: "I strengthen Rabbi Deri. We talked to the heads of Arab authorities. They need a little money to take over the disease."