Businesses located within a mall.
However, food retail outlets, food outlets (deliveries or take-out service), pharmacies, and stores that sell hygiene products are permitted to operate within the mall.
Entertainment –
Discos, bars, pubs, banqueting and events halls, fitness centers, swimming pools, water parks, zoos, safaris, petting zoos, bathhouses, cinemas, theaters, libraries, museum and other cultural centers, amusement parks, playgrounds, events complexes for shows and fairs, public sailing boats, cable cars, nature reserves, national parks, heritage sites and any other place with tourist attractions.
Retail markets and retail market stalls - even if they usually sell food. However, a store near the market can operate according to the guidelines outlined below.
Non-Medical Treatment of Human Body - Beauty & Cosmetics, Pedicure & Manicure, Tanning Salons, Hairdressers, Tattoo Parlors, Body Piercing.
Businesses that may continue to operate according to the following conditions:
Dining room (restaurant, cafe, buffet) and dining room inside a hotel - can operate, but consumption of food on the premises is not permitted. That is, they can prepare food for deliveries or sell take-out food.
Stores that sell food (supermarket), pharmacy, store for sale of hygiene products –provided that a 2 meter distance is kept between shoppers. To facilitate this, places should be marked for standing in line to pay at the cash register, and avoid crowding through the regulating the amount of shoppers who can enter the store at one time.
Other businesses – must keep to a maximum limit of 10 employees in the workplace or 30% of the workforce, whichever is higher.
Jobs that have a work permit on the day of rest - can operate with the number of employees who have a permit to work, or 30% of the workforce, whichever is higher.
Essential Businesses - Businesses that belong to one of the industries listed in the First Addition to Emergency Regulations (Limiting the number of employees at work to reduce the spread of the new Corona Virus) 2020, can work according to the amount of manpower they need in order to provide the essential service. The current regulations do not state a specific limitation.
The essential sectors are: health (including optics), financial sector (including banks), energy sector (including electricity, natural gas, oil, water), food industries (including agriculture, supermarkets, transport, storage and more), all transport and storage services, toiletries and cleaning supplies, pharmaceutical manufacturing, ports and shipping companies, communications services, workplaces for construction or infrastructure work, security, cleaning, salary calculation, maintenance, technicians.
It is important to note that no individual declaration of essential industries is required, and businesses do not have to hold a certificate to show that they are essential.
It is sufficient to check that they are defined as an essential industry as detailed in the First Addition to the Emergency Regulations.
For further information or assistance, visit the website of the Ministry for the Economy and Industry - Agency for Small and Medium-sized Businesses (Hebrew or Arabic only)
The Agency for Small and Medium-sized Businesses(SMB) is at your disposal - if you come across other guidelines from officials that are not listed here, please update the SMB Agency, and we will make sure the legal situation is coordinated with government agencies.
SMB Agency Moked Contacts:
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Ministry of Health guidelines for Hairdressers and Cosmeticians who provide services at the home of the client:
This practice is not permitted. The nature of such treatments includes close contact between the service provider and the client. In addition, a professional who comes to client’s home is being exposed to many clients, and is exposing his clients to many other contacts.
In accordance with section 5 (a) (2) of the Restricted Activities Regulations: "No person shall operate a place or business" including "business for non-medical treatment of the human body".
Business Licensing Order (Licensed Business), 2013 includes under Non-medical Treatments on the Human Body: beauty and cosmetic treatment, pedicure and manicure, tanning salon, hairdresser, tattoo addresses, and body piercings.
Accordingly, the language of the regulations and its purpose – which is social distancing and reducing or avoiding contact in order to prevent the epidemic from spreading, includes the operation of such businesses at the client's home.
Although restrictions on activity include the possibility of leaving for a workplace, which is also defined as "any place where work is done for business or occupation purposes ..." Regarding running such business, which also exists in the case of running the business from the client's home - there is no place to interpret the exclusion of going to work as including operating a business for non-medical treatment of the human body in the client's home.
In light of the above, operating a business for non-medical treatment of the human body is not permitted in the client’s home.
