There’s an alarming spike of new coronavirus cases in Tel Aviv in recent days, with 81 new cases in the past three days, the highest in the country.
While some of the cases can be attributed to the new coronavirus hotspot among illegal infiltrators in south Tel Aviv, those cases only account for a little over a third of the new cases.
It seems that Tel Avivians have become apathetic to the threat of the coronavirus, with streets, restaurants and beaches full of Israelis living their lives as if the coronavirus doesn’t exist – with no masks or social distancing. Protests with thousands of participants, rooftop parties with gatherings over the permitted numbers and other health ministry violations have become the routine.
Apparently, although the Chareidi public took a longer time than the secular public to absorb the significance of the coronavirus pandemic when it first began, a major shift has now occurred, in which the Charedim are adhering to health regulations much more seriously than secular Israelis.
In an article by Israeli Chareidi author Menuchah Fuchs, published on Chareidim10, she wrote: “Why am I embarrassed to wear a mask in certain neighborhoods in Jerusalem?”
Fuchs wrote that in recent weeks she’s embarrassed to walk around in secular neighborhoods with a mask because everyone is walking around there as if the coronavirus doesn’t exist. But when she enters a Chareidi neighborhood, she doesn’t dare to walk around with a mask since everyone is wearing a mask and some are even wearing gloves.
Whatever the reason may be for the secular public’s apathy, it may come to an end in the near future following an emergency meeting on Tuesday, during which Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu formulated a plan for increased enforcement of coronavirus regulations.
The regulations will be enforced not only by Israel Police but also by local authority inspectors and even Population and Immigration Authority inspectors.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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The whole mask thing is a joke. Purim is over. Despite the mad panic by the media and the government, the places with the highest number of cases of corona are better of than anyone else. Italy is already approaching heard immunity. The longer the ridiculous and unnatural restrictions are kept in place the longer we will have to wait to resume normal lives. The simple solution is to keep people at risk at a distance and resume normal life without distancing and other nonsense for everyone else.
Ha!!!!
Bnei Brak should put up a fence.
Those parasites in Tel Aviv living off my tax money and just thinking of themselves.
Lock them up in jail. That will knock some sense in their heads.
Its because of them we are at war with the Arabs.
Double standards.
etc. etc.
According to the the Israelis (and others including New York State), only 10% of people who are infected with Covid19 get sick. Even those who politically might feel a need to support the restrictions are realizing it was all a false alarm, so you see seculars in Israel partying, and left-wing Americans demonstrating. As people realize that “reported cases” refers only to the 10% who are sick enough to get tested, while antibody tests reveal that 90% of those that had the disease didn’t notice, there will be a growing backlash against those who destroyed the the economy by imposing lockdowns. In Israel, which is the youngest (in terms of average age) of any developed nation, this will be even more deeply felt since unlike past “plagues”, Covid19’s effects are most strongly felt among the elderly, rather than children .
Why are they not locking the city, like they did with Bnei Brak and chareidy neighborhoods in Yerusholayim – Hypocrisy?!
Elazar valk.
Its a good theory and its actually been tried out in Sweden.
And btw they have the highest death rate in the world.
So actually maybe its not such a good idea after all.