DAY 0: THE LAST PARTY (Israel’s Coronavirus Shutdown)

okay it's matzah Shabbos Saturday night March 15th I believe I'm in my car I'm in Israel and I need to go get gas because my gas is almost empty now tonight the panic officially started in Israel the Prime Minister of Israel announced that all schools were going to be closed the announced that last week but now they announced that all restaurants when we closed theaters wedding halls basically everything's shutting down and everyone's panicking and all the you know a lot of the supermarket shelves are empty right now because people just panic bought everything so I hope I'm a little bit ahead of the curve I'm trying to fill up my car with gas because if I can get gas then I can continue to drive around and report on this and whatever so heading to the gas station is like two minutes away from my house hopefully I can get gas I got a mask in my pocket and gloves so when I touched the you know the handle of the gas thing not gonna get effective God willing let's see how this works so we are approaching the gas station here as you can see there are other people it's it's after it's after midnight this is a very quiet neighborhood so there are never people here at this hour but I guess other people are thinking along the same lines and they're realizing that there may be a gas shortage so you gotta gotta fill up just in case I'm happy that other people are are taking it seriously but I also want to make sure that I get some gas too so let's do this thing got a pump just opened up and I'm gonna pull up here and get some guys forgot this I got my gloves on before we start thank God thank God thank God the gas is filling up okay so now that we've got the gas I'm on the way into Jerusalem to see if anything's open as restaurants will be closed tomorrow I want to try to get some restaurant food before we have to refrain from it for a month so let's see what we could find I was driving around I went to some other neighborhoods where people usually hang out on what the Shabbos Saturday nights they were empty now again it is very late but also even on a regular Saturday night people are up you are hanging out that late so it's definitely quieter than usual I'm about to head into the shock money hooda things open okay so I'm here at beer Bazar one of the most popular places in the shook and they just told me that they're going to be closed until whenever this is like they're cleaning up now the workers are worried they don't know when it's an open again but they're positive that sooner or later things will work out and life will get better hey bye guys good luck can't can't wait to be back when you open again here on a regular night this is this shook I mean on a regular right any night really busy especially on Saturday nights it's almost 2 a.m. usually this place would be popping with people almost completely empty here at hatch city what do you think this is gonna be over do what yeah really the things we okay so this is the last night of hacks that just closed probably for a while did I get out why everybody says oh this is Jackson bar also very popular spot McCook closing now for the last time for a while again many of these restaurants are telling me that they're going to be open for for takeout and delivery but for the most part there will be no note in restaurants for a while through the main through fear of the hook and this is what I would consider the last party in Israel for a while it's late night tomorrow morning all restaurants become illegal to legal for them to stay open so this is the last party check it out almost over [Music] tomorrow night there will be nobody here it'll be quiet no bars no parties Wow really unbelievable to see how the world is changing so quickly hopefully it won't last long okay so that's it I was just talking to people here who work at the bars and restaurants at the shook they're a little bit worried they don't know what's gonna be they don't know how long it's gonna take until things get back to normal they're trying to stay positive and hopefully it won't be too long and this place will be busy again the world will get back to itself people will get healed and hopefully we'll make the world a better place