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Ministers said to push off vote on virus czar’s proposal for fighting pandemic
A vote on coronavirus czar Prof. Ronni Gamzu’s proposal for containing the COVID-19 pandemic is pushed off, following a tense meeting of the so-called coronavirus cabinet, Hebrew media reports say.
According to the Ynet news site, ultra-Orthodox ministers Aryeh Deri and Yaakov Litzman led opposition to the plan, claiming it would prevent prayers at synagogues.
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