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Feb 22, 2021
pointless curfew might be coming for Purim
The government is strongly considering applying a curfew for the Purim holiday - it would likely start this Thursday night and be in place until Sunday morning. The curfew would be from something like the hours of 8 or 9pm until 5am. And maybe also a full closure on red cities.
The purpose of this curfew, should they pass it, would be to put a stop to Purim parties that would be operating against the guidelines.
Based on past performance, it seems likely they will only announce a decision at the last minute.
Unfortunately this is likely going to be meaningless.
First of all, even with a night curfew, people will be able to do whatever they want by day. Even if everyone were to keep the rules of the night curfew, which is a big if, they'll just move their parties to the daytime hours.
Second, if the enforcement of the curfew will be as light as it has been over the past couple of closures then this will just be a waste of time, effort and goodwill. Goodwill? Meaning, the government could earn some goodwill making a gesture to the people - tell the public that the numbers are trending down, so we are not going to lock you down, but please be responsible and follow the guidelines for being and keeping others safe, but it is mostly on you. Now, with curfews that will hardly be enforced, the same will be accomplished, or be not accomplished, but with resentment instead of goodwill. Not that goodwill is overly important, but if they are hardly going to enforce the rules anyway, why make everyone angry and resentful by setting a frustrating curfew?
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How obvious is it already that they want to totally 'deJudaize' Israel. What do you think this whole thing is about?
ReplyDeleteA Purim lockdown on red cities is ridiculous. Take a look at the list of red cities. Almost every single one of them is Arab.
ReplyDeletethat's funny. I didnt check which cities are red or other colors. It might not be the case though in the coming days. According to the news, the numbers are now inching up up again - they think it might be because of the opening of the schools but arent sure. Doesnt make sense to me as that has just been two-three days, so it should be too soon to affect the numbers.
DeleteSome towns reopened schools earlier.
DeleteLooks like the curfew is for the whole country, not just red towns.
ReplyDeleteyes, though it seems the rules allow for almost no enforcement, making this once again pointless. People can go wherever they want before the curfew starts at 8:30pm. When done they can go home, as going home is always allowed. The police are not allowed to enter people's homes even if they suspect a party is going on, and the day of Purim is an exception in the noise law, so people can have loud parties and the police can even know about it but cant go in to shut it down. Some of the cabinet members refused to allow public transportation to be minimized. They also refused to approve a ban on traveling between cities..
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