By MAARIV ONLINE, TAMAR BEERI3 minutes
The Finance Ministry prioritizes hi-tech firms and, only later
down the line, gives precedent to clothing stores and restaurants.
Border Police go about coronavirus inspections in Mea Shearim, a haredi neighborhood in Jerusalem.
(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)
In the past few days, the internal committee of the Finance
Ministry has formulated a list of priorities regarding the strategy for
easing the
coronavirus movement restrictions, according to Israel's N12 News.
The
priority list will be presented for the general committee of the
National Security Headquarters parallel to the recommendations of the
Health Ministry.
Economic factors, according to the Finance Ministry, must recommence immediately to avoid a financial collapse of the state.
The team put together three strategic principles for the
exit from the lockdown.
The
first step is that essential and exporting markets such as the hi-tech
industry must precede the trade and services industries such as clothing
stores, cafes, restaurants etc. These companies will be prioritized
because they were the least affected by the lockdown in the first place,
and so the effect of returning them to the workforce would be minimal.
The second step is that young workers integrate back into the workforce before older workers wherever that may be possible.
The
third step is to open work spaces with less crowded offices, within
which the risk of infecting one another with the novel COVID-19 is low,
before companies with a public reception such as banks. The lower-crowd
offices include law firms, accounting firms and other such office jobs.
The
Finance Ministry's team recommended that due to the widespread economic
damage as a result of the lockdown, a gradual release of certain jobs
from lockdown must occur.
An outline, according to the team, must
also be created which would allow a significant return of employed
people to their workplaces whilst minimizing the potential for a further
spread of the pandemic.
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