Corona Cabinet approved an updated which enables to resume studies in Ramat Gan And other cities

The Corona Cabinet has approved the updated traffic light index, according to which studies will be able to resume in cities defined as "bright orange" from next Tuesday. The localities where more studies are open are Gush Etzion, Gan Yavne, Ganei Tikva, Yokneam Illit, Kfar Yona, Mevaseret Zion, Ma'ale Adumim, Nahariya, Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Rehovot and Ramat Gan. They will also be able to reopen their studies in the settlements of Yakir and Peduel in Samaria, Mevo Horon in Mateh Binyamin, and in Sde Nehemia in the Upper Galilee.
In Eilat, the municipality announced that the institutions will not be able to prepare for the opening of studies until tomorrow, and that the return to studies in the city will only take place on Wednesday. Beyond these localities, several other cities have turned yellow already over the weekend, and in them, too, studies can resume. These include Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Givat Shmuel, Kiryat Yam, Sakhnin, Ariel, Shefar'am, Maalot Tarshiha and Kiryat Bialik.
"For me, every day that students are in schools and kindergartens is an important day, so I asked the director general of the ministry to make a special effort, to initiate and allow every educational institution and authority prepared for it - to open educational institutions tomorrow morning," Galant wrote on his Twitter account. "Institutions that need additional preparation time will open schools and kindergartens on Tuesday."
The update of the traffic light index follows the directive of Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, who instructed the staff of his ministry to update it twice a week from now on, and not once as it has been so far, against the background of criticisms of the return to school.
Merom Schiff, chairman of the National Parents' Leadership, previously complained about the delay in approving the updated traffic light index, and even expressed resentment that the government does not discuss opening schools to other age groups. , "Said Schiff.
"I wonder when the time will come to seriously discuss the return of fifth- to tenth-grade students back to the school bench," the chairman of the National Parents' Leadership added. "First and foremost, the government's priorities."
The change in the calculation of the traffic light method follows a request submitted by the chairman of the local government center, Haim Bibbs. In the new situation, the cutting will be determined on Sundays and Wednesdays, That the schools and kindergartens had to wait up to a week for the actual implementation of the color change of the authority and return to activity.
Last Thursday, about 480,000 children from urban kindergartens and first- and fourth-grade students returned to school, after five weeks in homes. According to a government decision made on Tuesday evening, a return to routine is only possible in green, yellow localities and neighborhoods and orange localities where the rate of those vaccinated over the age of 50 is higher than 70%.
In grades 1-2, classes take place five days a week, including after-school classes and without division into capsules. In third-fourth grades, students study in groups of up to 20 children, without after-school programs. In two weeks, the fifth-sixth and eleventh-twelfth grades will return to activity, and in a month, the entire education system will operate with the return of seventh-tenth grades.