Cabinet ministers tell the Ynet news site that a meeting of the coronavirus cabinet that is set to take place today may be pushed off to Thursday amid disagreements over a strategy to reopen the economy as Israel’s second lockdown winds down.
The report says the differences between various ministries have to do, among other things, with when preschools and kindergartens will reopen, along with the reopening of Haredi yeshivas and the lifting of the one-kilometer limit on travel.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz, responding to news that the meeting could be postponed, says, “The debate over an exit strategy cannot be postponed any further. Small businesses are continuing to collapse, and we must deliberate returning children to [school and preschool].”
Ronni Gamzu, the government coronavirus czar, seems to side with the move to postpone the meeting.
“I’ve only just now heard about it,” he says before delivering a briefing in the Jerusalem municipality. “In any event, today there would not have been final decisions regarding easing [the terms of the lockdown] but rather only general outlines.”
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