The Namaste greeting, traditional in Indian culture, involves placing one's hands together in a gesture of acknowledgment.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about the spread of coronavirus in Israel at a Wednesday press conference, suggesting that Israelis forego the normal greeting ritual of shaking hands and instead adopt the Indian meeting tradition of the Namaste.
Traditionally, the Namaste greeting is conducted by placing one's hands together, palms touching and fingers pointing upwards. It can be used with or without a slight bow of the head, but using the bow is seen as a show of respect to the person being greeted. Israel currently has at least 50,000 people on quarantine with more expected to be placed in isolation after it was reported that an individual infected with coronavirus attended a soccer game at a stadium in Tel Aviv.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested on Wednesday using the Namaste greeting instead of shaking hands as a greeting to help curb the spread of coronavirus.While all the votes have yet to be tallied, Netanyahu appears to have won Israel's recent national election, the third one in less than a year. Netanyahu's Likud party received the most popular votes but has so far not been able to gain enough seats in the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, to create a government.
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