New week

Sunrise today

It's Sunday .... the last one of Easter before Pentecost. All churches and mosques are still closed so all our celebrations are still private. In a way everyone living in the sanctuaries are relieved. No chaos, no troublesome local guides., no noisy tourists, no arab sellers sneaking into the compound. It's very peaceful and a great vacation that we all need from the over 4 million tourists we had last year.

Police stopping a
guy without mask

Today pre-school children go back to kindergartens and care-centres. Parents are therefore free now to go back to work. However many parents are still worried about this early re-opening of schools and some mayors have even stopped schools from re-opening. Yesterday crowds have flocked to the beaches without observing distancing or wearing masks. Fears of a 2nd wave have made various govt depts blaming each other for not enforcing the law. Soldiers however are back in their barracks and things on the security side seem to be back to normal. News report say that due to the limited transportation, bus stations were overcrowded with soldiers.

Here's the link to the news on the crowds at the beach.  https://www.ynetnews.com/article/BJ00RlHSqL

This morning I saw 4 policemen stopping an arab for not wearing a mask. He got into an argument with them. The police offered a mask to him but he refused. I couldn't see what else took place, whether he was fined 200 shekels. But that's one rare moment when police enforce the law.

Well it's the new week and we'll see how things develope from here. Let's hope there'll be no 2nd wave.