After Israeli tourists returned from the U.K. last week, passengers were carted off their flight and taken directly to hotels, known as corona-hostels, to be quarantined. Israel has entered another lockdown, due to fears over a new Covid-19 (coronavirus) strain believed to have originated in Britain. Calcalist spoke with Ofer Bengal, the CEO of Redis Labs, who was one of the passengers whisked off to a Jerusalem hotel, where he was holed up and attempted to work remotely.
“Suddenly people covered head-to-toe in white coats, like in the movies, got on the plane. They put us on buses heading straight to Jerusalem, and then put us in quarantine. They confiscated our passports and returned them only once we were already in the hotel. It was shocking, I can’t describe it, it was like in the worst countries out there. It was like a science fiction movie,” Bengal recounted. The founder and CEO of Redis Labs Inc. an Israeli startup that has recently reached unicorn-status, describ