Cultural performances will resume immediately in open spaces in capsules of up to 20 people

Cultural performances will resume immediately in open spaces. The complexes will be divided into capsules of up to 20 people in each group. Each performance will require prior approval from the Ministry of Health. This is the outline that was agreed upon on Sunday evening and presented at the end of a meeting of representatives of the cultural industry with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Finance Israel Katz, Minister of Culture and Sports Hili Trooper and Minister of Health Yuli Edelstein. Simultaneously with this meeting, several hundred people from the cultural industry demonstrated in front of Bnei Gantz's house in Rosh HaAyin under the heading "Where is my son?".
Netanyahu said at the end of the meeting: "We have made a decision to open the performances in open spaces, under capsules in a very controlled setting. At the same time, to examine the possibility of opening the performances in closed spaces under Prof. Gamzo's traffic light program, he will present it to us in the coming weeks. We want to move immediately with performances in the open public space "
According to the outline formulated in recent weeks, it will be possible to enter cultural events in the open air, when the complexes will be divided into capsules of up to 20 people per capsule, there will be separate entrances at each event while ensuring the audience enters, accompanied by ushers. Tickets will be sold online.
Minister of Culture Trooper congratulated: "I am very happy that the world of culture is coming back to life. The Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Health and I held an important meeting with artists, and it was agreed that the performances in the open spaces can return immediately. "
Along with the concessions given to the artists in rehearsing the performances the Corona Cabinet added restrictions on the public. This is in an attempt to reduce the number of infections that do not decrease. For some reason the government is not willing to point out the real culprits - the ultra-Orthodox and the Arabs. If in the Arab sector there is a willingness to close the ultra-Orthodox explain to their audience that secularism is the main problem. Rabbis explain to their believers that the Blessed One hurts the ultra-Orthodox more because they are more equal.
The Corona Cabinet has approved regulations regulating the restrictions on business activities, workplaces, places open to the public and gatherings, as well as the rules of conduct in public space in the shadow of the spread of the Corona virus. In addition, the current rules for jobs have been anchored.
The decision will take effect upon the expiration of the emergency regulations this coming Tuesday, 11.8.
The regulations stipulate the following arrangements:
1. Establishing rules in the public space regarding the maintenance of a distance of 2 m between people.
2. Determining a ban on gathering in a space in a private, public and public or business place - of more than 20 people in an open area, and up to 10 people in a building.
3. Determining a restriction on travel in a private vehicle, regarding the number of passengers - 2 passengers in addition to the driver, and if the vehicle has more than one rear bench, another passenger on each additional bench, except for people living together.
4. Placement of signs by the local authority near amusement facilities in public areas, regarding the obligation to maintain distance, prohibition of gathering and masks.
5. The rules that apply to a public or business place, among others: submitting a declaration, placing a partition, signage, appointing a Corona commissioner, questioning and measuring heat, marking places to stand in line, maintaining hygiene and disinfection rules, not entering a person without a mask, etc.
6. Determination of the permissible occupancy in a public and business place: one person per 7 sq.m. or in accordance with the crowd limit (whichever is higher). The business), group therapy in a welfare setting - up to 15 people, and in the pool and mikveh - in the pool water up to one person per 6 square meters. In addition, there is an obligation to place signs regarding the number of residents allowed in the place, and the determination and operation of a mechanism for regulating the residents.
7. Clarification - the said instructions do not derogate from the "director's instructions" given by virtue of the Public Health Ordinance, to prevent the spread of an epidemic, including prayer houses, a mikveh, a restaurant, a hairdresser and beauty treatments, and more.
Determination of additional conditions (in addition to the general conditions of a place open to the public and business) - for the mall and the market, including the prevention of eating in a common food complex.
9. Determination that in the delivery service the delivery will be placed near the development of a residence, outside it.
10. Giving authority to the head of the service or a district physician in the Ministry of Health, in case it was discovered that Corona was ill in a public or business place, to order the closure of the place or part for the period necessary to prevent infection with the virus or to conduct an epidemiological investigation. There is a possibility in the regulations to obtain on this determination.
11. Determining a blanket ban on the operation of: a disco, bar and pub, hall or garden for celebrations and events as well as: water park, amusement park and amusement park - including those located in the building, a Jacuzzi which is a licensed business and a place to hold fairs.
12. Restriction on the holding of an event of the specified types, in which the number of participants exceeds what is permitted in accordance with the prohibition on gathering. Including: conference, party, festival, organized trip, etc., whether this gathering takes place in the private and public space, or whether it takes place in a place open to the public or in a business.
13. Pools for toddlers may be opened.
14. The new regulations allow, among other things, cultural events to be held in accordance with restrictions on the number of participants in gatherings. The Director General of the Ministry of Health, in consultation with the Director General of the Ministry of Culture, may authorize a cultural institution to hold performances under other conditions it may decide.
As for workplaces that do not receive an audience, the rules that have applied to date have enshrined in the regulations that up to 10 people in a closed area and 20 people in an open area do not apply, and instead guidelines apply to employers on how to act to minimize virus infection. Thus, in practice, jobs that do not receive an audience continue to operate properly and continuously. In addition, regulations exempting workplaces from the need to comply with the rules as much as possible are stipulated in order to maintain the continuous activity of the economy.