174 shares Sufganiyot donuts sold at a bakery in the Mahane Yehuda Market, Jerusalem, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, on November 26, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
In its second apparent policy reversal in under a week, the government has dropped its plan to impose additional pandemic restrictions over the Hanukkah holiday, and will instead tighten health rules when the number of daily cases hits 2,500, according to Hebrew media reports on Thursday.
The decision came after ministers in the so-called coronavirus cabinet protested the plan to ban Israelis from visiting other people’s homes during the evening hours of the eight-day holiday, which begins on Thursday night. It was unclear how police would have enforced such an order at any rate, as they cannot legally enter homes without a warrant.
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