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With indoor film theatres shut because of
coronavirus restrictions, Tel Aviv municipality launched the
floating cinema to allow residents to catch a movie in the open
air while still keeping a safe distance from each other.
The floating cinema provided seating aboard 70 pedal and rowing
boats set in the Yarkon Park lake, two metres apart to maintain
social distancing, Tel Aviv municipality said.
Two films will be screened every evening during the last week of
August, the municipality said. Thursday's screening, attended by
about 200 people, was a pilot event which featured the family
comedy "Paddington 2".
"It was an amazing evening. Great to see a cinema corona-style.
We had an amazing time. The whole family enjoyed it. Good move
Tel Aviv," said Galia Resnick, 42, a high-tech worker from Tel
Aviv.
After successfully containing the coronavirus in May, Israel has
been grappling with a second wave of infections and has reported
almost 100,000 COVID-19 cases in total and 795 deaths.
(Reporting by Rami Amichay and Maayan Lubell; Editing by Giles
Elgood and Lisa Shumaker)
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