In consultation with professional officials, the ministerial committee on fighting the coronavirus approved the proposal of PM Bennett & Health Minister Horowitz to shorten the duration of quarantine to 7 days, conditional on waiting for the result of a negative coronavirus test.
Prime Minister Bennett:
In order to boost the cooperation with the public, as well as the confidence of the public, the Cabinet has decided to enable persons in quarantine to be tested on the seventh day of their quarantine, wait for a negative result and thereupon be released.
However, we will also increase enforcement for violations. People who leave quarantine without being tested will be fined NIS 5,000. The goal of this move is to increase the number of people who accede to quarantine.
We are setting out terms that the public is able to meet. We are coming toward the public.
We expect the public to accede fully, to quarantine, to the tests at the end of the period, to vaccinations and to wearing masks.
Together, we will defeat this pandemic.
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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke for the first time with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. The Prime Minister thanked the President for his warm congratulations on the establishment of the government in Israel and noted that he has been a great friend of the State of Israel
Prime Minister Bennett commended the election of Brazil as a member of the UN Security Council and emphasized its strong and continuing stand alongside Israel in the international arena.
The leaders noted that the two countries have much in common and agreed to deepen bilateral ties and cooperation in a range of areas, especially economic matters and high-tech.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's remarks, today, at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting: gov.il/en/departments…
We're leading a clear strategy: Slowing it down & maintaining our routine. We have 1 eye on the public health & slowing the virus and one eye on the economy and our daily routine, with consideration, responsibility, transparency, dialogue with the public and mainly – calm & quiet
This morning, I am pleased to announce, that following a series of calls with Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla, last night we closed a deal to bring forward the next shipment of vaccines, to 1 August.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attended the IAF pilot's course graduation ceremony today at the Hatzerim airbase.
"It is our responsibility to maintain the safety of the State of Israel, to guarantee its existence. On this, there are no, and will be no, compromises.
Each and every Israeli prime minister, from Ben Gurion, through Begin, until today, has had one sacred duty as a guide: We will not allow an existential threat to loom over the State of Israel.
The years go by and our adversaries change and advance.
Then it was Iraq, today, Iran. The level of sophistication and determination of our enemies has increased.
The leaders met privately and then held a working meeting with the participation of Foreign Minister Lapid, Honduran Secretary of State for Foreign Relations and International Cooperation Banegas, the Honduran Minister of the Presidency and the head of the Honduran tax authority.
Following the meeting, the foreign ministers signed a bilateral MOU regarding plans and projects in agriculture, water resource management, health and sharing information on developing innovation.
PM Bennett: "Alongside this, we want to minimize harm to routine life in the country. Therefore, we have decided to take action as soon as possible, even now, in order not to pay a heavier price later, by taking quick and responsible actions.
PM Bennett: "This depends on us. If we strictly adhere to the rules and act responsibly, we will succeed in this together."
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett visited Ben-Gurion International Airport, this evening, toured the testing facility and held an assessment regarding the coronavirus.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett:
"The spread of the Delta variant is currently accelerating throughout the world in many countries, with a rate of infection that is much higher than we have known.
It infects at a 50% higher rate and I regret that we are also seeing that it is starting to spread in the State of Israel, including infections in the community in which we cannot always locate the source.