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From the Liveblog of
Monday, April 6, 2020
From the Liveblog of
Monday, April 6, 2020
Cabinet meeting tonight to discuss closures
A ministerial meeting scheduled for this afternoon, during which lockdown measures on eight cities were meant to be authorized, has been canceled.
Instead, ministers will meet remotely in a cabinet meeting tonight.
During that meeting, they will approve new emergency regulations.
Some reports suggest the closure will be extended to the entire country ahead of Passover, rather than a handful of cities, after ultra-Orthodox ministers Yaakov Litzman and Aryeh Deri protest the restrictions being rolled out largely in Haredi areas.
It remains unclear how this closure, aimed at preventing Israelis from traveling to relatives for Passover, will differ from the current rules.
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