Health Ministry: Green Pass, Purple Badge to be removed June 1

• Author: Arutz Sheva Staff
• Date: 26 May 2021
• Published date: 26 May 2021
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

A health ministry notice said that "Due to the low and stable morbidity that has now prevailed for a long while despite the very broad opening of the market and educational system, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein announced that he will not seek to extend restrictions that will expire next Tuesday, June 1. The significance is that starting on that day, the need for a Green Pass will be canceled and Purple Badge restrictions will be canceled."

The notice added that "In the next two weeks, professionals will hold discussions about the requirement of wearing a mask in closed spaces. Until further decision, this requirement will continue. In addition, restrictions on entry into and exit from Israel will remain and, if needed, will even be made more stringent."

"Israel is returning to routine!" Edelstein said, and credited the announcement to Israel's vaccination campaign, which he called "the best in the world," as well as to the health ministry's "outlines for gradual and careful opening of the market, which allowed for maintaining low morbidity data over time."

"Even so," he...