As rocket and mortar attacks from the Gaza Strip continue, the Israeli military orders all classes in southern Israel be canceled, along with a number of other security measures.
In Israeli communities closest to Gaza, all businesses and government offices are told to close unless they are considered essential.
In the central Negev and Lachish regions, which are farther from the Strip, businesses are only ordered shut if they do not have a bomb shelter nearby.
Government services there will also be scaled back.
Firefighters near a building which was set ablaze by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in the southern Israeli city of Sderot on November 12, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
In these regions, located dozens of kilometers from Gaza, only groups smaller than 300 will be allowed to gather, the army says.
–Judah Ari Gross
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