And here is the outcome of the Knesset’s decision:
** Cabinet approves full lockdown starting Friday**
The cabinet voted to approve tighter lockdown measures, including shutting most schools and workplaces. The new regulations will go into effect at midnight between Thursday and Friday and last 14 days.
All schools will move to online teaching, apart from special education institutions and establishments for at-risk youth. Only workplaces considered essential will remain open.
On traveling abroad, the ministers decided that only those who purchased an airline ticket before the new measures go into effect would be allowed to fly, but a special committee would be able to grant approvals to fly in specific cases.
All incoming (Israeli) travelers will be put in a state-run quarantine facility, and would be let out only after having tested negative for the coronavirus.Updated Jan 8, 2021, 6:14 AM