Members of the Knesset Education Committee who sit on the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee overturned on Sunday a cabinet decision to send students in the fifth to 10th grades home during the third lockdown, which starts at 5 p.m. Sunday.
Seven committee members voted against the lockdown regulations as they were presented and decided that children in grades 1-12 would continue to attend school as they did prior to the decision to instate a lockdown.
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Teachers' union head Yaffa Ben-David said that the organization would declare a labor dispute, essentially a threat of a strike.
