Israel imposed a nationwide lockdown ahead of the Jewish High Holidays last month to rein in the country’s surging coronavirus outbreak….Reports Asian Lite News
The Israeli government has extended ban on public gatherings, including widespread protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for an additional week.Arab News Reports
Government ministers approved the measure until Oct. 13 by a telephone vote, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement late on Wednesday.
Israel imposed a nationwide lockdown ahead of the Jewish High Holidays last month to rein in the country’s surging coronavirus outbreak.
The Knesset, Israel’s parliament, passed a law last week allowing the government to declare a special week-long state of emergency to limit participation in assemblies because of the pandemic.
The government then declared the state of emergency, limiting all public gatherings to within a km of a person’s home.
Netanyahu has said the restrictions are driven by safety concerns as the country battles a runaway pandemic, but critics and protesters accuse him of tightening the lockdown to muzzle their movement and expression of dissent.
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