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Senior planning officials are thinking about how to learn from the Corona outbreak

Prof. Rachelle Alterman is a senior researcher at the Samuel Neaman Institute for Policy Studies at the Technion, who believes the Corona crisis but illustrates how problematic are tower buildings, especially residential ones: “Towers could be a contagious trap. You shun the elevator because the virus might be in this small area and on its surfaces. You can’t bring in a stretcher. Even if you want to go down the hundreds of stairs, there is a problem because they are a small closed space.