Why is Israel ignoring the pleas of Jews cut off from their families?
With reporting by Ariella Schiller and Eliezer Shulman
Almost two years after becoming the first state to wall itself off from the world as Covid burst out of China, Israel is once again the country that dwells alone.
“The Omicron strain is here, doubling infections every two to three days, and the fifth wave has begun,” warned Naftali Bennett in a Sunday night press conference, urging masks, social distancing and a vaccine booster campaign on a weary public.
For tens of thousands of families both in Israel and worldwide for whom Covid has normalized a once-unthinkable separation from friends and loved ones, the die was cast a day later. Ministers added a slew of Western countries including Belgium, Canada — and for the first time since the onset of the pandemic, the United States — to a no-travel “red” list that already featured England and France.
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