A Health Ministry official overseeing the ultra-Orthodox sector is holding advanced negotiations with rabbis and other prominent public figures within the community to allow the resumption of studies at yeshivas in five days despite the sector's high coronavirus infection rate, Ynet has learned on Tuesday.
The negotiations between the head of the ultra-Orthodox desk at Israel's program against coronavirus Magen Israel, Maj. Gen. (Res.) Roni Numa, and ultra-Orthodox bigwigs began after the collapse of the "capsule outline" which mandated studies in religious institutions to take place in small groups to prevent mass outbreaks of coronavirus.