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FILE - Travelers locomotion with their luggage successful the Ben Gurion Airport adjacent Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021. Israeli ministers connected Monday agreed to prohibition question to the United States, Canada and 8 different countries amid the rapid, planetary dispersed of the omicron variant. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

JERUSALEM – Israeli ministers connected Monday agreed to prohibition question to the United States, Canada and 8 different countries amid the rapid, planetary dispersed of the omicron variant.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s bureau announced the determination pursuing a Cabinet vote.

The uncommon determination to red-list the U.S. comes amid rising coronavirus infections successful Israel and marks a alteration to pandemic practices betwixt the 2 nations with adjacent diplomatic relations. The U.S. volition articulation a increasing database of European countries and different destinations to which Israelis are barred from traveling, and from which returning travelers indispensable stay successful quarantine.

A parliamentary committee is expected to springiness the measurement last approval. Once authorized, the question prohibition volition instrumentality effect astatine midnight Wednesday morning.

Israel has seen a surge successful caller cases of the much infectious coronavirus variant successful caller weeks, and began closing its borders and restricting question successful precocious November. Foreign nationals are not allowed to enter, and each Israelis arriving from overseas are required to quarantine — including radical who are vaccinated.

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Other countries that were approved to beryllium added to the question prohibition starting Wednesday are Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Switzerland and Turkey.

Israel rolled retired a world-leading vaccination run aboriginal this year, and much than 4.1 cardinal of Israel’s 9.3 cardinal radical person received a 3rd dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.

In a prime-time code connected Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett urged parents to vaccinate their children, declaring that the country’s “fifth wave” of coronavirus infections had begun. As of Sunday, Israel’s Health Ministry has reported 175 cases of the caller variant.

Israel has recorded astatine slightest 8,232 deaths from coronavirus since the commencement of the pandemic.

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