Friday the last

It's the last Friday before Ramadan and usually it's amok with crowds in the streets ... lots of temporary food stalls and hawkers selling toys and new clothes. The streets would have been packed shoulder to shoulder. But today it's all empty. All the mosques are closed ... including the central shrine the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque ... the 3rd holiest shrine in Islam. What we living here in the Muslim side of Jerusalem worry about is will there be curfews and stricter lockdowns during the whole month of Ramadan? That would be too much for us. Anyway muslims leaders are calling their followers to pray at home instead of the mosque during Ramadan.  https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/palestinians-instructed-to-pray-at-home-during-ramadan-due-to-coronavirus-624723?fbclid=IwAR3jE5QJ1tl5-H2rVoTYoe4xM-MR4fqboRKF2ia3YiG4gnx6yMdSn5g2oHw

Anyway here's an interesting article on religion and the spread of coronavirus. It's true that majority of the epicentres  https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/ry7xuoHuL

Anyway we're waiting for a new government to form ... as talks between the 2 largest parties continue after the dateline to form a new govt expired last night. Without a proper govt, there is no exit strategy for the viral pandemic ... when schools can reopen, when workers can go back to work, when the airport reopens .... we're all waiting and some people are quite confused from lack of clear instructions.