approved: operation of the rapid laboratories for corona testing for returnees from abroad at Ben-Gurion Airport

The Ministry of Health has approved the operation of the rapid laboratories for corona testing for returnees from abroad at Ben Gurion Airport, Transport Minister Miri Regev announced. And the isolation on all who have returned from abroad in recent months.
Earlier today, the Knesset's Economics Committee approved the extension of the temporary provisions on restrictions on the operation of airports and flights. Once every few weeks, the committee convenes, usually in a limited composition, and after reading the regulations, a vote is held and they are extended for another period. This time, however, in light of the large number of mutation cases that managed to enter Israel and what appears to be one of the great failures in the fight against the virus, the discussion took a turn from the familiar conduct.
The chairman of the committee, Yaakov Margi (Shas), asked to check whether the airport acted in accordance with the approved guidelines and regulations. A representative of the legal department of the Ministry of Transport replied that "an effort has been made for the field to be carried out in accordance with the instructions, but there is difficulty due to the effects of violence." Margie clarified that "there is a law, if I do not know how to manage the field as stipulated by the legislature - close it."
At the conclusion of the meeting, Chairman Margie invited the Ministries of Transportation and Health to ask to inspect inspectors to enforce the regulations or to send police officers to enforce their existence. Among other things, due to the fact that until the second closure the tests were a national resource and required the establishment of a private laboratory in the field.
Another reason raised by the director general of the Ministry of Health was the ban on performing an invasive test without the subject's consent, in fact it is not possible to force a person to do a corona test (but no other sanctions were enforced - KK). According to him, the ministry recommended a change in legislation that would allow an invasive examination while charging the subject.
The chairman of the pilots' union, Meidan Bar, said that "even if you approve regulations that will not be enforced - we will sit here for another month. The Airports Authority does not have the authority to prevent a person from entering - this is the job of a police officer. "According to Prof. Asher Shalmon of the Ministry of Health," These regulations are the least we can do. "We think that non-essential departures abroad should be reduced, only for urgent economic, health and family needs. Our position is that tests should be done at the entrance to the country."
In practice, throughout the months of the epidemic and also in the tightest closures, as far as passengers with Israeli citizenship were concerned, the entrance gate to the country was not closed. Subsequently, the abandonment of flights to Dubai and the incompetence of the Ministries of Health and Transport to deal with proper entry arrangements to Israel, including the obligation to present negative tests performed before the flight and non-enforcement of the isolation obligation, led to the importation of verified patients.
Some infected entire flights, others forged test certificates bought for a few tens of shekels, refused to vacate hotels to deny the introduction of mutations of the virus, knowingly violated the obligation of isolation for returnees from abroad and even though they had all the details, the state demonstrated incompetence and crime in neglecting enforcement. "To.
The government has so far officially hidden behind the legal argument that it cannot prevent an Israeli citizen from entering Israel, but a statement issued this morning by the Attorney General on behalf of the Attorney General clarified that he never prevented the entry conditional on Israel from presenting a negative test.
Now, those returning from abroad are required to be in solitary confinement, but can be shortened subject to two tests - one on the day of arrival and another on the ninth day since landing, and must be in solitary confinement throughout this period. And Zambia, are committed to isolation in the motel.The discount went into effect at 01:00 tonight.