Committee on the Constitution, Law and Justice, chaired by a Member of the Knesset Gilad Karib, Convened this morning (Wednesday) to discuss the new classification for the red states. At the end of the discussion, the new classification regulations for the red states were approved, expressing a transition from the inclusion phase to the morbidity reduction phase. Thus, 14 countries will remain on the list of countries at maximum risk to which entry is prohibited and Mexico will be added to the list.
During the hearing, her chairwoman clarified his demands to approve the changes, including his demands to apply an exception to family events that are not just “first degree,” adding: “The right to go beyond the borders of the state is a constitutional right. “Regulations. As the days go by, the epidemiological and legal justification for leaving red states goes down, I hope the list will shrink in about a week.”
Gilad Karib in the Constitution Committee, Spokeswoman for the Knesset
At the beginning of the debate, MK Karib clarified that if the Population Authority does not establish a red line in favor of those seeking to enter the country and can not wait five days for the Exceptions Committee’s response, it will vote against regulations brought to the committee’s approval. “I would recommend to my committee members to vote against the regulations if the matter is not closed,” Karib said. “Leaving the country is a fundamental right. I will not approve regulations that state first-degree exit permits“Do not bring it to us in the next set of regulations.”
Karib added that “we are also on the verge of a labor dispute at the consulates at the embassy. I demand an answer on operating a hotline for those seeking to enter or leave.” He explained his reluctance that the regulations deal with granting exceptional permits when it comes to first-degree family events, arguing: “In a reasonable interpretation, a second-degree family member’s life event is almost always a first-degree family member event as well.”
Karib, for his part, demanded a clear statement from the Exceptions Committee, so that grandparents would also be allowed to leave if necessary, and not restrict instructions to a first-degree relative.
Chief of Public Health, Ilana Gens, said: “The rate of infection is increasing and at the same time we are beginning to gather more clinical evidence of initial clinical trials with the risk of hospitalization and serious illness. We are beginning to see a more significant increase in hospitalizations. The vaccine is estimated to be 75% after the booster, and this is part of the figure that helped us make a difficult decision regarding the isolation policy for those exposed to the variant.
“We are seeing a clear decline of two starters versus the variant, so the decision was made to advance the booster dose to three months. Recoverers who are vaccinated with one vaccine dose are protected at least as much as those who received a booster,” Gens said.
“The spread in the community has begun. The situation will change rapidly. We are moving from the inclusion phase to the morbidity phase as much as possible. This directly affects the criteria of country classification,” Gens added.
It was further proposed that the application to the Complaints Committee be made online when a link to an online form and other ways if any, will be indicated in the decision of the Exceptions Committee. The purpose of the amendment is to publish the appeal to the Appeals Committee only to applicants whose application has been denied, with the aim of not flooding the Appeals Committee with appeals from those whose case has not yet been decided.
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The explanatory memorandum to the regulations states that “so far, since the identification of the omicron variant, as long as morbidity in Israel was well contained, the criteria for classifying the countries referred to the prevalence of the variant and its expression in recurrent morbidity with the variant in Israel. Is the extent of the morbidity entering Israel from a particular country. “
Inside such, The next countries will remain red countries: United Arab Emirates, USA, Ethiopia, UK, South Africa, Hungary, Tanzania, Nigeria, Spain, Portugal, France, Canada, Switzerland and Turkey. It was also proposed to add Mexico to the list of these countries.
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