Israel, without restrictions before an omicron that breaks records of infections

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To the numerous ideas that turned Israel into a

, a new one related to omicron is added:

.

Like any start-up in a context of uncertainty, the line between success and failure is very thin.

Faced with a variant that breaks

in the most contagious wave since the coronavirus appeared two years ago, the Israeli authorities decided to

(such as reducing the isolation of those infected from 10 to seven days from this Thursday),

targeting PCR especially to risk groups,

in shopping centers,

based on the percentage of infections in the educational system and

vaccinated or who already had the virus.

The Cabinet recipe emanates from the philosophy of keeping the economy open and the belief that the fifth wave is already uncontrollable and with less damaging effects than the previous ones in terms of the number of seriously ill patients. Criticism of his

management

lies in the spectacular numbers of cases, the long queues to get antigen tests, the zigzag in decision-making that increases confusion, the absence of generalized economic compensation for an undeclared semi-closure ( motivated by the high number of isolations and infections) and the

.

"The government of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid has opted for a

," says Channel 13 commentator Nadav Eyal, who adds: "It is possible that in the end their calculated bet that the hospitalization system does not collapse will be fulfilled. , but the Israelis hope that, if there is a massive contagion, there will also be a work plan. At the moment, there is not and there was no plan.

Israel's strategy can lead to

although

and explains that its priority is to protect the elderly and children. The head of the public health service, Dr Sharon Alroy-Preis, counters: "If we were promoting herd immunity we would have stopped all testing and that is not really the situation, we are increasing the amount of testing. What we do has to adapt to the reality of a very large wave of contagion".

So big that Bennett calls it a "tsunami" and predicts the contagion of several million in a country of 9.4 million inhabitants.

. With a positive rate of

and R at

, seriously ill patients do not increase, for now, proportionally to that of positives. This Wednesday it already reaches

while the number that marks the red line regarding the response of hospitals is around 1500.

While the

, the campaign of the fourth dose to those over 60 years of age, immunosuppressed and health teams started a week ago has already vaccinated almost 500,000 people. The Expert Committee has recommended not extending the fourth vaccine to the rest of the population.

"I have come to be more protected and also not to endanger the rest," Shlomo Cohen tells EL MUNDO while waiting for his distant turn for the fourth puncture in a medical mutual in the city of Modiin. This retiree supports the decision to keep the economy open and reveals his recipe for not getting infected by a virus called panic: "I don't watch the news on television."

With

in two years of the pandemic,

They have all three doses. In this group, those over 60 have a ten times higher defense. "There is an anti-vaccine ideological group that will not be vaccinated no matter what happens since they believe in a conspiracy by pharmaceutical companies, governments or whatever," laments the director of International Relations of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Asher Salmon. According to him, "health experts offer the Government a plural vision. We have evaluated the waves through five mathematical models."

When an Israeli public radio journalist

told Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz that he had two tickets for a performance and asked if he should go, the response reflected the spirit of the moment: "

. You are old enough to know what to do. We guarantee the means, vaccines, medicines and tests".

Given the

that also do not offer maximum precision, the Government now distributes three sets of tests to each student. After several changes,

which forces teachers to teach in class and at a distance via the Internet.

The authorities boast of keeping the economy open in contrast to the previous Government in the first three waves, but the reduction of expenses of 29.5% in clothing and 10.5% in cultural events, half-empty restaurants and roads without traffic indicate a gradual de facto closure. "We do not want to mortgage our future and give away money. We will compensate whoever is affected but I will not allow electoral bribery," warns the head of Finance, Avigdor Liberman, referring to former Prime Minister

(4 in two years) that hit his country.

After being praised this summer for being a world pioneer in the third vaccine, which allowed Israel to be the first to overcome the delta variant, Bennett receives the suspense of 62% of citizens according to the latest poll.

Leading a party of only six of the 120 deputies, he does not have the political power to impose his vision and must

is also very diverse in how to deal with the virus.

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