Dear readers,
Israeli innovation doesn’t end with agriculture, medicine and high-tech.
Israelis are also quite clever when it comes to making excuses and dreaming up justifications for breaking the rules.
The country is currently on what’s supposed to be a full coronavirus lockdown.
And yet, you can find plenty of cars on the roads and plenty of people roaming the streets, even if most shops and restaurants are closed.
That’s because the current lockdown has several loopholes, and Israelis have wasted no time finding creative ways of exploiting them.
Rising restrictions
But it might become more difficult to skirt the lockdown in the coming days.
Israel’s government on Tuesday voted in favor of closing one of the aforementioned loopholes by barring mass political demonstrations during the lockdown.
We’ll see if the left-wing anti-Netanyahu protesters who gather outside the Prime Minister’s Residence every weekend will actually comply with the new directive.
Will school ever resume?
For most of us, the roughest part about the lockdown is the feeling that our kids just might never return to school.
Israelis on average have larger families than in most Western nations, and with all of the kids on Zoom and needing their parents’ help with school work, it’s what we like to call a balagan.
Blessings from Jerusalem,
Ryan Jones
English Editor
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