War-affected countries . . . Israel: The crumbling "safest" sign.

On July 24th Wang Shuai (ahuascember), who works in the construction industry in Israel, posted a tweet saying he had dreamed of a flight back to China the night before, but lost his passport.
morning, he rummaged through the room and finally found his passport in the bed.
return to work on May 17, the outbreak in Israel was relatively stable, with daily new infections remaining largely in the single digits.
the end of June, the outbreak began to rebound sharply.
so far, there have been 84,722 confirmed cases in Israel, 25,111 have been confirmed, 613 have died, and the number of new cases in a single day has exceeded 2,000.
July 24th Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said Israel could face another "total closure" in response to the dire situation of the domestic outbreak, Xinhua reported.
seems to be getting out of hand, much to the concern of many Chinese who, like Wang Shuai, are working or studying.
"I'm sure I'll feel a little uneasy, but I'm better at school."
, a student at Technion who has been studying for four years, described to the health community how she felt about the current outbreak.
in-depth analysis of big data on outbreaks in more than 200 countries around the world, Deep Knowledge Group, a British think-tank, has launched the COVID-19 National Security Ranking.
april, Israel topped the list, meaning it was the world's safest country at the time.
, Israel took a number of early and decisive measures, including entry restrictions, to effectively prevent the spread of the epidemic in the country.
can't help but wonder what israel did early on to contain the outbreak? Why has there been a sudden and sharp rebound recently, and what's going on in the middle? Next, where will the Israeli epidemic go, and will it return to the "safest" country? Less than two months ago, before the new crown case broke 21 February, Israel was indeed relatively safe.
, according to the Times of Israel, Israel's Ministry of Health announced the discovery of the first confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia.
the woman was a passenger returning to Israel after being quarantined on the Japanese cruise ship Diamond Princess.
22nd night, a Korean Air flight landed at Israel's Ben Gurion airport, but Israel refused to allow nearly 200 non-Israeli passengers on board, 12 Israeli passengers were directly transported home for 14 days, so the flight had to return.
reason is that a group of 77 South Korean tourists returned home to find that nine people infected with the new crown virus, the tour group had visited Israel for a week, during which time visited nearly 10 cities of churches and attractions.
week later, the Israeli Ministry of Health announced that the second case of new coronary pneumonia had been confirmed locally, and that the infected person had returned to Israel from Italy and had been diagnosed with the new coronary pneumonia, the first human-to-human case in Israel.
12 March, the number of new cases of pneumonia in Israel broke through.
Ministry of Health said that the same day 12 new cases, a total of 109 confirmed cases.
the epidemic is beginning to spread.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in a statement on the same day through the main television channels, in addition to pre-school and special education schools, will close all schools and universities until the March 31 Passover holiday, hoping to slow the spread of the virus.
government has taken preventive and control measures, but has not been able to prevent the spread of the epidemic.
March 22, the Ministry of Health said that the day of the new coronary pneumonia confirmed 188 cases, a cumulative total of 1071 confirmed cases, 1 death.
from that date, Israel will test about 3,000 people a day for the new coronary virus.
, on March 25th, Mr Netanyahu told a news conference that the government was preparing for a full "city closure" of the country if the situation did not improve effectively.
evening of April 6th, Netanyahu announced that Israel would implement a nationwide "city closure" from 16:00 on the 7th to 7:00 on the 10th.
, a nationwide curfew will be imposed from 18:00 on the 8th to 7:00 on the 9th, and all people will be banned from leaving their homes.
local media analysis, the government may relax some restrictions after Passover (8-15).
even with extreme measures such as city closures and curfews, the number of infections in Israel quickly broke through.
April 10, according to the Ministry of Health issued the outbreak data, as of 10 pm local time, the cumulative number of confirmed cases reached 10095 cases, a total of 93 deaths.
Although the "city closure" measures were lifted from 0600 hours on the 10th, Israel still has a number of restrictive measures, such as the prohibition of the entry of foreigners without Israeli citizenship or residency rights, and the promulgation of a mandatory ban on people leaving their homes in addition to the purchase of food and medicine, medical services and other activities.
when the situation in Israel becoming more serious, many institutions in the country to aid the epidemic prevention materials.
April 13, students and parents of the Technion Guangzhou raised 150,000 masks, 600 sets of goggles and other medical supplies, which were handed over to the Israeli Consulate General in Guangzhou for targeted donation to Technion.
mid-February, a teacher at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, where Xiaoxuan studied, mobilized his school colleagues to donate a batch of epidemic prevention materials to Wuhan's Third Hospital.
recalled the civil solidarity between Israel and Israel during the outbreak, which encouraged Xiao Qi, who was studying in Israel.
In order to convey the true state of Israel to the country, she and Chinese students in Israel to collect epidemic data, prevention and control policies and popular science information, and other channels posted on Weibo, "hopefully to help those who are concerned about the outbreak in Israel."
just two months, Israel's infected people broke 10,000, but because of the use of similar to China's "city closure" and other strict prevention strategies, the epidemic is generally under control.
, the level of medical care in Israel is high, and the Government's focus on treating seriously ill patients is not high, with a cumulative death rate of 272 before the resumption of work in May.
therefore, ordinary people do not have too much panic about the new crown virus, perhaps not as much as the prevention and control brought about by the closure, unemployment and inconvenience of life.
Shuai also told the health community, although there have been many new infections since July, but a better change is that many people have recently gone out wearing masks.
"We Chinese generally cautious and rarely go to crowded places.
out and in public are mostly native Israelis, and even if the outbreak is so severe, there are still a few people who don't wear masks.
the "Trump" outbreak in Israel? Compared with the official tensions, the attitude of the Israelis is unusually "Buddhist".
"We went to Israel during the Spring Festival, because of the outbreak in Wuhan, the local Chinese is relatively nervous, so they all went to buy masks, but the locals are relatively calm about it, do not seem to realize what the problem.
, head of a Beijing-listed business, described to the health community what he had seen and heard in Israel earlier this year.
Li Zhe's company to promote technology, capital and cultural exchanges and cooperation between China and Israel, with many Israeli companies frequent business.
" outbreak had a big impact on us, especially on the travel business;
In mid-March, many Israelis lined up at supermarkets to snap up hoards in response to a possible government siege, according to a video posted by several local users, but in fact, Saturday is the Jewish Sabbath, usually at home.
And as can be seen from the video, everyone looks natural, no one wears a mask, Israel is in the Middle East, but deeply influenced by the West, like Europe and the United States, citizens advocate freedom, the government rarely interferes with the behavior of individual citizens.
government issued early warning and prevention and control measures, but it is difficult to effectively regulate the behavior of the people.
, the government took more stringent measures, such as punishing people for not wearing masks, but limited to manpower, making it difficult for the government to monitor everyone.
, coupled with the majority of the country's lack of awareness of the extent of the dangers of new coronary pneumonia, too relaxed and "light enemy", eventually led to the "no mask" phenomenon.
this is the first reason for the spread of the epidemic.
reason for this is related to custom.
, similar to the Chinese New Year, is one of the three major Jewish pilgrimages, usually for eight days.
according to the Israeli Tourism Board, every year at the beginning of Passover, people will go to the "wall of crying" gathering, there are different celebrations, many people will also choose to travel, visit friends and relatives.
people pray for Passover in front of the "Wall of Crying."
Photo by Xinhua/Keeni Photo Agency on April 22, 2019 that's why the prime minister chose to impose a curfew during Passover: fear of gathering to celebrate the holiday.
But as Li Zhe said, the government's initiatives, limited restrictions on ordinary people, the festival of social gathering activities, more difficult to control, these cultural practices continue for thousands of years, deep into the hearts of the people, short-term can not be interrupted by external forces.
"culturally influenced, Israel encourages childbirth, and a family with many children at the same time is large.
told the health community that Israelis value families and that children outside the country go to be reunited with their parents on Family Day on Fridays, factors that have contributed to the spread of the epidemic within the family.
, the premature resumption of work under the pressure of economic down-downs is also a very important reason.
has had a major impact on Israel's economic pillars, such as exports, tourism and services.
these tertiary industries also provide a lot of employment opportunities, so the coverage is also very wide.
because of work reasons, Li Zhe in Israel's hotel, catering, transportation and other services practitioners to learn that the outbreak on their economic situation has a great impact, many people are unemployed at home.
anxiety and discontent in society as a whole is on the rise.
The unemployment rate in Israel has jumped from 4 per cent to 26.1 per cent since the beginning of March, according to data released by the Israel Employment Service on April 12, according to Beijing Tv.
as the outbreak eased in May, the government began to gradually deregulate economic activity in the hope of reducing the unemployment rate caused by the outbreak and boosting economic growth.
, the Government also announced that schools would be fully closed from 17 May.
but did not think that, under economic pressure, the premature implementation of "re-education" led to the rapid spread of the epidemic, which is an important reason for the rapid rebound of the epidemic.
two weeks after the resumption of classes, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem reported a large number of new cases of coronary pneumonia in schools, according to Youth Reference.
, the government responded, and some schools stopped reserning.
3 June, the Israeli Ministry of Education announced that 2,026 teachers and students in the country had been infected with the new corona virus and that 28,000 people in close contact with them had been quarantined for observation.
number of confirmed cases has other reasons.
According to Li Zhe, the number of new crown infections has risen sharply, but also with the government to increase the screening of new crown virus, many of the previous lurkers and asymptomatic people were identified.
, Israel's high level of health care and technology, but low efficiency, poor resistance to the disease is also related to the poor health care system as a whole.
," he added.
worries and external problems: When will we return to the safest country? Today, Israel faces an "internal and external problem".
among Israel, the Government of Israel is under enormous economic and public pressure as a result of the economic shock and unemployment caused by the outbreak, as well as the recent sharp rebound in popular discontent and anxiety.
On August 1st Israel's biggest protests since 2011 took to the streets to protest the spread of the outbreak caused by the government's rapid restart of the economy and to demand that Mr Netanyahu, who is suspected of corruption, step down voluntarily, Al Jazeera reported.
protests took place in many places, with some 10,000 people taking part in Jerusalem alone.
, according to the Times of Israel, in the face of protests, Netanyahu and the blue-and-white party leader, Defense Minister Ganz at a cabinet meeting on the 2nd clashed.
, two large-scale protests have actually broken out in Israel so far this year.
, on the evening of July 21, about 2,000 protesters gathered in front of the prime minister's residence to oppose government restrictions on restaurants, businesses and other gathering places.
people who took part in the protests were mostly small and medium-sized business operators in services such as restaurants, demanding financial compensation from the government.
, earlier this year, on 19 April, thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square to protest against the government's threat to democracy and its use of the epidemic to track down citizens.
, Mr Netanyahu has previously said he would consider counter-terrorism measures such as cyber surveillance to track carriers and contacts.
government's fight against the epidemic, the people protested.
this puts the government in a dilemma.
If the government adopts severe anti-epidemic measures, press the suspension button on the economy, all walks of life will be affected to varying degrees, unemployment will inevitably rise, social discontent gradually fermented, and eventually evolved into accusations and protests against the government;
, on the other hand, in external relations with neighbouring countries, there have been territorial disputes between Israel and neighbouring countries such as Palestine and Syria since the beginning of the year, which have been followed by several armed conflicts between the two sides.
the spread of the domestic epidemic does not appear to have affected Israel's foreign policy and military operations.
, leader of the Blue and White Party, believes that fighting the epidemic, boosting the economy and improving people's livelihood is the more urgent task.
July 23rd, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin took to social media to criticize Netanyahu's coalition government for being infighting, hoping that the government would stop bickering at a time when the country was in crisis and focus on finding a solution to the crisis.
actions against Israel have also caused international concern.