The government held a meeting today (Sunday) at which the ministers discussed the spread of the Omicron strain. In the discussions, the ministers also addressed the implications for the public and restrictions on the tourism industry.
Transport Minister Merav Michaeli said: “It is legitimate to sacrifice the tourism industry, but we need compensation.”
Finance Minister Lieberman added: “The problem is the small hotels that were based on inbound tourism. There you have to check balances. Regarding travel agents and guides, you have to say: start changing the profession. From four and a half million tourists we went down to 200,000. The road has already changed domain.
“I do not want to be like the previous government, which is scattering money to everyone who raises their hand. Even according to the most optimistic forecasts in 2025, not even a million tourists will be seen.”
Guides against Lieberman: “Sending citizens to their bitter fate”
The guides responded to Finance Minister Lieberman’s remarks at the cabinet meeting: “The mask was removed from the government’s face – this is a detached and opaque government, which does not see tens of thousands of citizens without any income. A government that does not understand is the one who caused it. “The failure, which every citizen feels every day in traffic jams, and the finance minister who throws Israelis to their bitter fate. We are law-abiding citizens who love the country and serve as its ambassadors while the entire economy opens, and we are left behind.”
Bennett: “Green sign in malls”, Barbibai: “Wrong”
Prime Minister Bennett: “In the Delta-era schools we held a green classroom that created a special framework that allowed for further study through a mass of tests. We checked the data and decided that if there were more than two patients or an omicron – only the vaccinated would continue to study frontally. These are the decisions that have been made. Regarding the malls – we will examine the possibility of continuing a green sign in the malls. “
Barbibai: “It would be a mistake to apply a green mark to malls”
Zandberg: “Why? It’s a closed place”
Nizri: “You can arrange a bracelet for those who have a green mark and the rest will only enter the essential service”
Shasha Bitton: “The feeling is that of deja vu, if you look at the data you see that we have been in the story of the omicron for three weeks and we see that the verified index remains stable in all parameters.”
Bennett: “If we were in 70% of students we would be somewhere else. If the Ministry of Education had attacked it, we would have been somewhere else. We need results.”
Health Minister: “Unvaccinated people will pay for isolation in a motel”
Health Minister Horowitz: “We are given about three days notice. I am in favor of the model where unvaccinated people will pay for their motel. There is no reason for us to fund it. If they have money for a holiday abroad, they have money for a motel. These are large expenses and we must now bring an outline for compensating the tourism agreement. Obviously it will come at the end, so why wait with it? “.
Meirav Cohen: “There is one last question. Is the plan simply to shorten the time from giving one booster to another for about 4-3 months? Or are we waiting for a version of the vaccine to be updated?”
Bennett: “We will also shorten times, and once there is a new vaccine then we have already bought it.”
Fridge: “We are crawling into closure and on the way there will also be vulnerabilities, but there will be closure.”
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