israel has started to see a drop in cases its lockdown is set to expire at the end of the month carrie fawcett is in west jerusalem with more on the flight restrictions that will go into effect on monday. this is may just by the israeli government something that. has not been done during this and then make there was reportedly some concern on the part of the deputy attorney general as to whether would even be legal prevents israeli citizens from returning home but yet during the course of a cabinet meeting on sunday we understand has now been approved that from monday midnight no. arrivals and no exits through israel's main airport will be allowed unless there is special permission granted in exceptional cases this is an attempt to stop new strains coming into the country to a time when the vaccine rollout program is going at a much faster pace than anywhere else in the world already we're approaching any 30 percent of the population as a whole being vaccinated so there is evidence of the vaccine starting to work what they don't want in israel is for new strains which might escape the vaccine