Prime Minister Naftali Bennett opened the cabinet meeting this morning, Sunday, by threatening to reinstate aspects of the green pass.
Bennett said that "without the cooperation of the citizens of Israel, and if the extent of the morbidity continues to grow, we will consider bringing back some of the restrictions of the green pass."
The prime minister called on Israeli citizens to "Wear masks indoors, it works. The best vaccine against the coronavirus is the masks, they work. Avoid overcrowding indoors."
Scientific studies have pointed to health hazards resulting from mask mandates imposed on members of the general population. A study recently published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) indicated that air being inhaled by mask-wearing children has five times higher than the baseline carbon dioxide level without a face mask.
The CDC says that a surgical mask "does not provide the wearer with a reliable level of protection from inhaling smaller airborne particles and is not considered respiratory protection."