Following what the government is calling an alarming rise in the number of new diagnoses of coronavirus, officials within the Health Ministry have told the Maariv newspaper that there is no choice but to return to the "green pass" system in use until recently.
"We tried to make it easier for business owners, so that they wouldn't have to recruit additional staff to check up on people, but in the end it had the effect of making people think that coronavirus was over," one official said.