Israelis concerned after at least three-week containment announced
Jerusalem, September 14, 2020. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP
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Israel is reconfiguring for at least three weeks as of Friday, September 18.
The figures for new Covid-19 contaminations are breaking all records.
The Israelis are divided on this decision.
And traders threaten to rebel.
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From our correspondent in Jerusalem
,
Michel Paul
Israelis no longer trust their leaders, according to the main finding of a recent poll.
And
on the issue of containment
, they are divided.
For Shimon, this is a step in the right direction, but it comes too late.
“
It's good but it had to be done from the start,
” he said.
The benefit would have been greater.
The number of infected would already be reduced
”.
Epidemiology specialists cannot agree.
And Zeev, like many Israelis, has difficulty forming an opinion.
“
I can't say if I'm for or against
,” he explains.
This epidemic is against trial and error.
And like so much in life, the truth is probably in the middle
”.
But for the majority of traders who were just starting to recover from the first confinement, this new forced closure is a real disaster.
For Nathalie Hirshprung, director of Vice Versa, the French bookstore in Jerusalem, “
all small traders are fed up with it.
A new three-week closure.
Like many downtown merchants, we do not know if we will respect it
”.
Concern is also present among the participants in the demonstrations against the Prime Minister.
The rules for these gatherings have not yet been communicated.
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