DEBKAfile
The closure of Ben Gurion airport was urged by PM Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday, Dec. 20 as a new coronavirus strain emerging in the UK and other countries was proving 70pc more transmissible than the first covid 19. Shocked by word of the variant, on the first day of a countrywide vaccination program, Israel’s coronavirus cabinet ordered incoming travelers from the UK to be transferred under police escort to coronavirus hotels for 12-days’ quarantine. Similar instructions were issued for flights incoming from Denmark, Australia, South Africa and the Netherlands, unless they are turned back.
The buses left the airport with 80 arrivals for quarantine hotels in Jerusalem, but 30 Israelis are barricaded at the airport and resisting evacuation. Another 270 Israel-bound passengers are due to land unless they are turned back.
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