The head of the IDF's Home Front Command said Monday that the army is preparing to open a Tel Aviv hotel that it converted into a quarantine facility for carriers of the coronavirus who have only light symptoms.
Maj. Gen. Tamir Yadai said that Tel Aviv’s Dan Hotel will open for patients shortly, followed hours later by Jerusalem’s Dan Hotel.
These two hotels are among four that Defense Minister Naftali Bennett called on the military to open for coronavirus-carriers, in what he said was an effort to relieve some of the burden on the nation’s hospitals.
The other two hotel-hospitals — one in northern Israel and one in the south — are due to open in the coming days.