1 Schlaglicht Israel Nr. 1/21 Aktuelles Aus Israelischen Tageszeitungen 1

Schlaglicht Israel Nr. 1/21 Aktuelles aus israelischen Tageszeitungen 1.-15. Januar Die Themen dieser Ausgabe 1. Verschärfter Lockdown infolge steigender Neuinfektionen trotz umfassender Impfaktion ..................................... 1 2. Veränderte Parteienlandschaft im Vorfeld der Neuwahlen .......................................................................................... 3 3. Sturm auf den US-Kongress ........................................................................................................................................... 5 4. Medienquerschnitt ........................................................................................................................................................... 7 1. Verschärfter Lockdown infolge steigender aegis (…) the state’s handling of the pandemic re- Neuinfektionen trotz umfassender flects a lack of capacity to manage crises not related Impfaktion to war. (…) There are no laws, regulations, guide- Ungeachtet eines dritten harten Lockdowns in Israel lines or government handbooks on managing ongo- und ungeachtet der intensiven Impfkampagne stie- ing crises to provide us with methodologies for re- gen die Zahlen über Tage auf über 9000 Neuerkran- viewing and evaluating public policy in a systematic kungen. Insgesamt haben sich bislang über eine way. (…) 15% of businesses are expected to close halbe Million Menschen in Israel mit dem Corona- down by the end of the year, mostly among small Virus infiziert. Ein Licht am Ende des Tunnels ist and medium-size businesses; around one million indes zu erkennen. Gut ein Fünftel der Bevölkerung are unemployed; socioeconomic gaps are widening, ist bereits mit dem schützenden Serum geimpft (…) there is a terrifying rise in domestic violence worden. Ziel der Regierung ist es, bis Ende März (…). The government of Israel must develop a clear alle über 16-Jährigen gegen Covid-19 zu immunisie- strategy for coping with the pandemic (…). The ren. Nachdem zunächst ausschließlich mit dem coronavirus pandemic, with all its destructive effects, deutsch-amerikanischen Mittel der Firmen Biontech is likely to be with us for months to come, and thus und Pfizer geimpft wurde, wird nun auch der Impf- presents us with an opportunity to adopt and imple- stoff des US-Konzerns Moderna eingesetzt. Vorläu- ment a culture of inquiry and evaluation of public fig gelten allerdings weiter strenge Einschränkun- policy in Israel. (…) gen. So darf das eigene Haus oder die eigene Woh- Ron Tzur, Nissim Cohen, JPO, 02.01.21 nung nur in einem Umkreis von 1000 Metern verlas- sen werden, die Schulen, der Handel, alle Kultur- Israel's healthcare is in the best Jewish tradition stätten, Cafés und Restaurants sowie Fitnessstudios The coronavirus pandemic has already taught us a und Schwimmbäder sind geschlossen. lesson in humility. (…) The same measures that saved humanity during the 1918 Spanish flu pan- Wave No. 3 is here – We must learn our lesson demic, can save us now in 2020: Hygiene, social (…) Winter is here and with it a third wave of coro- distancing, mask wearing and personal responsibil- navirus infections. Yet despite this, there has been ity. (…) With all due respect to masks, and after no structured and orderly process at a national level millions were spent on government public service of learning from experience with regard to policies announcements telling us to wash our hands, it is and actions taken so far by the government, its the HMOs, the oldest remnant of Jewish tradition, ministries, and the executive agencies under its that have come through. Long before the Spanish 1 flu, Jewish communities around the world knew that out which the coronavirus’ spread cannot be curbed care for the common good connects all people. (…) without shutting down the entire country. Netanya- Jewish communities have always collected funds for hu’s political calculations, particularly his depend- those among them who are less fortunate. Charity ence on the ultra-Orthodox parties, prevents him boxes have long been present in every synagogue - from managing the coronavirus crisis efficiently. providing for the poor, the orphaned, and most of all That’s why Israel is being dragged time after time the sick. (…) The early socialist laborers instituted a into full, “equal” lockdowns, because it is afraid to kupa, a communal fund, whose monies would pro- lock down only those areas with high infection rates. vide health care to their members. That same idea (…) in those areas where the government really has continued into statehood with the establishment of no authority to impose differential regulations, there Israel's HMOs. They (…) are the very organizations is also no full observance of the lockdown. Among that are providing Israelis with the vaccines that will the new limitations decided on (…) is to close all rid us of this pandemic. Our government must apol- schools except for special education frameworks ogize for keeping them out of the rooms where deci- and those serving teens at risk. Like a broken rec- sions were being made in the early days of the ord, the cabinet decision was followed by an order coronavirus crisis. (…) from the leader of the non-Hassidic Haredim, Rabbi Merav Batito, YED, 02.01.21 Chaim Kanievsky, to keep the Haredi Talmud Torah schools open even though the rules forbid this (…). Lockdown must be tightened The Haredi education system has been operating for A lockdown is not a strategy for handling the COVID months in violation of the rules and continues to crisis, it is a doomsday weapon and a demonstration operate as usual even though all the Haredi cities that policies of denial have failed. It is also the result have been defined as “red” zones, with high inci- of the public's low willingness to follow the regula- dences of infection. (…) Israel will be marking time tions enacted by the authorities. (…) we need to between stringent and less-stringent lockdowns until learn our lessons and reach conclusions about how the vaccination campaign is completed. As usual, we wound up here after a second lockdown, and the public will pay the price. why we still don't feel the third one. It has already Editorial, HAA, 07.01.21 been announced, and business owners and the business sector and paying the price. (…) Israel's Vaccinating the Palestinians is in Israel's interest vaccination campaign is a light at the end of the The strength Israel is radiating both as a country tunnel, and the big question is how we can connect and a society in its ability to obtain vaccines and these amazing steps toward national vaccination to inoculate its citizens faster than any other country the serious situation we find ourselves in. What we stands out against the chaos running rampant need now is national policy that will quickly cut back around the world, both in the advanced and enlight- on the number of people being infected and the ened Western Europe and North America, as well as number of confirmed cases, in addition to vaccinat- our surrounding region, where health systems lag ing most of the country's elderly population. This will behind and the firm hand of security forces make it allow us to open up the economy and put our socie- difficult to realistically assess the magnitude of the ty's life back on track. (…) crisis. But the hope of a speedy exit from the crisis This is a marathon, not a sprint, and over the course obscures the fact that in Israel's backyard, the coro- of a year we've gotten tired. It would be best if we navirus continues to spread unhindered. (…) if mor- didn't collapse in the final stages (…). The more we bidity in the Palestinian territories goes unchecked, adhere to the restrictions, the shorter the "third lock- Israel will find it difficult to take complete control over down" will last. (…) morbidity in the territories under its control. It's Joshua Shemer, IHY, 05.01.21 enough to see what is going on in east Jerusalem to understand the severity of the problem. Israel then In Israel, yet another political lockdown must take action, take responsibility, and ensure the (…) How can you reduce the rate of infections with a inoculation of all of its residents west of the Jordan lockdown that’s not being enforced? Intensifying the River. Such a move is necessary to deal effectively lockdown is the collective price Israeli citizens must with the pandemic, but there are other significant pay for poor enforcement (…). The bitter truth is that advantages from Israel's perspective. (…) A vac- the government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu is cination campaign led by Israel would undoubtedly incapable of implementing a differential policy, with- bolster its image among its friends and allies, and 2 should they take part logistically and financially, its haltsdebatte. Israels Regierungschef Benjamin new friends like the United Arab Emirates, making Netanyahu hofft, im Wahlkampf mit der erfolgreichen such a move doubly beneficial from a diplomatic Impfkampagne gegen das Corona-Virus zu punkten. perspective. Yet the greatest significance of a cam- Außerdem schreibt er sich die jüngste Annäherung paign to vaccinate the Palestinians is that it would zu einer Reihe muslimischer Staaten zu. Koalitions- see Israel take responsibility for the population in partner Benny Gantz, Chef von Blau-Weiß, muss Judea and Samaria and possibly Gaza. This would hingegen um den Einzug in die Knesset bangen, best express the fact that (…) Israel remains sover- nachdem sich sein Bündnis in mehrere Kleinstpar- eign for every matter on the ground. (…) teien

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