Hello, I'm Nula McGovern on the BBC World Service, and this is BBC OS, conversations on

coronavirus, face masks. As every country undergoes a different stage of the pandemic, we hear from Italy

where its citizens are now allowed to go outside without masks for the first time in eight months.

I am so used to bringing it with me and wearing it all the time that it almost feels natural now to have it on even outside but whenever I realize it I just take it off a minute if I am in a certain environment not close to anyone and it really feels like freedom.

Freedom from coronavirus restrictions is a topic of conversation for many of us.

And after leading the way with its vaccination rates, Israel has decided to reimpose its indoor

mask mandate. That's just days after lifting it. It has been one of the most successful countries

in the world when it comes to tackling the pandemic.

Well over half the population of 9.3 million are partially or fully vaccinated.

And the requirement to wear masks had been the last remaining restriction.

But the about turn was made after a rise in COVID cases because of the Delta variant.

And to understand more about how Israelis feel about this I spoke to two members of the same family with seven children between them just before they were about to have a large family reunion.

Lee lives in Binyamina, that's a high-risk red area north of Tel Aviv,

where the new outbreak started, and she doesn't agree with masks being brought back indoors.

But first we'll hear from her brother-in-law Adam in Jerusalem

about how circumstances have gradually changed

when it comes to COVID.

It was just a few months ago that my wife and used to say it was just circling around us.

You know, everybody would speak to, oh, we can't, we're in the Hebrew word is

is B-Dud, we're in quarantine.

And kids from my kids class would go into quarantine.

And of course, if they came back positive, then our kids would have to go in, which didn't happen.

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