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Deri said demanding national lockdown for Rosh Hashanah, instead of local ones
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, head of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, has demanded a national lockdown be enacted ahead of the Rosh Hashanah holiday instead of local closures planned to begin tomorrow in cities with high infection rates — among them several largely Haredi towns, Haaretz reports.
Deri asserted in a meeting with the prime minister that health officials agree local closures will be unhelpful, the report says.
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