Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday night the government has decided it’s finally “okay to visit grandma,” but “not yet okay to give her a hug.”
That, in a nutshell, has long been the description used by the prime minister and Health Ministry secretary-general Moshe Bar Siman Tov when talking about risk of endangering older extended family members, the need for social distancing and the importance of adhering to the ministry guidelines even when they don’t seem to make a lot of sense.
