Health Minister Yaakov Litzman opposed his ministry’s advocating of a full lockdown to contain the coronavirus during a meeting today at the Prime Minister’s Office, the Kan public broadcaster reports.
The following is the text of an exchange between Litzman, head of the ultra-Orthodox United Judaism Party, and Netanyahu, as reported by Kan:
Litzman: How does it look that every day or two there’s another decision [to impose new restrictions] and another decision?
Netanyahu: So because of public perception we shouldn’t do this?
Litzman: It can’t be that one can take their dog out, but the mikveh is closed.
Netanyahu: What can you do, the virus doesn’t respect religion.
Litzman: Well if it doesn’t respect [religion], we will.
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