Movement will be restricted to 1,000 meters from home, except in exceptional cases

A general view shows a street in Bnei Brak as Israel enforces a lockdown, April 3, 2020 (photo credit: AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS)
A general view shows a street in Bnei Brak as Israel enforces a lockdown, April 3, 2020 (photo credit: AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS)

 

The government voted late Wednesday night to roll out a countrywide closure that will be imposed beginning Sunday, December 27 at 5 p.m. for two weeks, with the option to extend if the number of new daily cases is still over 1,000.

The following is a detailed list of COVID-19 closure regulations:

> Movement will be restricted to 1,000 meters from home, except in exceptional cases

> Prohibition on staying in another person’s residence

> Retail, entertainment and leisure – closed, except for deliveries

> Businesses that do not receive the public can operate at 50%

> Public transportation will run at 50% capacity

> Gatherings will be reduced to 10 people in closed spaces and 20 people in open spaces

> The Eilat and Dead Sea “green islands” will cease to operate

> Exercise permitted on one’s own at any distance from home

> Preschoolers and students in grades 1-4 and 11-12 will go to school between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m.

> Special education will continue as usual

> Children of divorced parents will be allowed to move between households

As reported by The Jerusalem Post