Defense Ministry launches home isolation operation
The move comes after a cabinet decision to cancel the hotel-quarantine apparatus.
By UDI SHAHAMBlue and White party leader Benny Gantz walks in the Israeli Parliament during a vote on a bill to dissolve the Parliament at the Knesset, December 02, 2020. (photo credit: ALEX KOLOMOISKY / POOL)
The Defense Ministry will launch an operation to ensure that travelers returning from abroad self-isolate at home, it announced Sunday. This follows a cabinet decision to cancel the hotel-quarantine apparatus.Operation Kanfei Hayil (Wings of Strength) will kick off next Sunday, the ministry said. Some 300 professionals will be assigned to local authorities to assist them in enforcing home isolation. They will join about 670 Defense Ministry workers who already assist people who need to go into home isolation.The Defense Ministry intends to ensure that local authorities receive the details of travelers returning from abroad.The operation will be carried out in cooperation with the Home Front Command.“The entire security system is mobilizing to fight the coronavirus war, which is sadly far from being over,” Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Sunday. “Some 1,000 workers of the operation will be posted throughout the country as of next week and will assist those who need to go into isolation.They join the thousands of Home Front Command soldiers and officers who are now part of the vaccines, tests and operation to break infection chains throughout the country.”
