The Tel Aviv Labor Court early Thursday issued an order blocking plans by teachers to strike in protest of new rules exempting school kids from quarantine.
The order was issued after the government filed an emergency injunction against the wildcat strike, called by Israel Teachers Union head Yaffa Ben David.
On Wednesday evening Ben David had called on teachers not to show up to work the next morning in protest of the new rules, which, she wrote, will jeopardize faculty members’ health by allowing children exposed to coronavirus carriers to continue going to school, Times of Israel reported.
Ben David’s announcement came shortly after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz decided to push ahead with Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton’s plan for the new quarantine rules, despite reported calls by health officials to delay it until more information about pediatric hospitalizations related to the virus could be gathered.
The move plunged hundreds of thousands of parents into uncertainty over whether there would be school on Thursday, with the ruling only coming just before dawn.
