Dr. Boaz Lev, head of the Pandemic Unit at the Health Ministry, told Galei Tzahal this morning that "We are preparing for a scenario in which the peak of the epidemic is still ahead of us, in the coming winter."
Lev added that, "The crowds we saw [yesterday] at Ikea demonstrate that people still haven't internalized what social distancing means. I hope that we will be able to ease the current shutdown, but we have to do this extremely cautiously."
Yesterday, Ikea branches in Israel reopened in Rishon Lezion, Tel Aviv, and Netanya, although the in-store restaurants remained closed.