Home Front Command eases guidelines for north, permits reopening of schools

Amid the porous ceasefire with Hezbollah, the IDF Home Front Command says it is easing its guidelines, allowing schools to open in areas on the northern border.

Educational activities are now permitted inside a building, or in an area where a shelter can be reached in time, in all communities along the Lebanon border, as well as in Meron, Bar Yohai, Or HaGanuz, Safsufa, Yesud HaMa’ala, Kisra-Sumei, Beit Jann and Sde Eliezer. Previously, educational activities were prohibited in those areas.

Workplaces can also operate in all of those areas, either inside a building or in an area from which an adequate shelter can be reached in time.

According to the latest guidelines, gatherings are now restricted to 100 people outdoors and 400 indoors, after previously being restricted to 50 and 200, respectively, and beaches are being reopened.

In the Upper Galilee and northern Golan, along with Katzrin and Kidmat Tzvi, all restrictions imposed earlier this week have been lifted. These guidelines remain in effect until Sunday at 7 p.m. By then, the Home Front Command will conduct another assessment.