President Reuven Rivlin attends the opening of an emergency call center set up by the Magen David Adom ambulance service and the IDF’s Home Front Command for dealing with the new corononavirus.
“Israelis, like people around the world, are battling a plague that is hitting all humanity. Of course, in Israel we are protected by Magen David Adom and the IDF, the people’s shield and the people’s army… Everyone has faith in you and knows that they can do so,” Rivlin says at the facility in Ramle, according to statement from his office.
The president urges Israelis to follow Health Ministry instructions, noting Israelis can be a “little dismissive” at times of official orders.
“We must listen to the instructions. Often, we are a little dismissive of instructions or we think ‘they are very important for other people, but not for us.’ We must strictly follow all the instructions we have been given because they have been properly and carefully thought through to prevent any danger to us all,” he says.
President Reuven Rivlin (L) uses hand sanitizer at the Magen David Adom-Home Front Command emergency call center in Ramle for the coronavirus, March 12, 2020. At right is MDA’s Eli Bin. (Mark Neyman/GPO)
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