Nitzan Horowitz
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz: “We must eradicate violence against medical teams quickly. Zero tolerance for violence in hospitals.”
Masks will still be required at high-risk locations such as hospitals, nursing homes and flights.
Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz is reportedly willing to consider “new ways” to solve contentious issues, in a bid to convince Yamina MK Idit Silman to reconsider her resignation.
Resignation leaves Bennett-Lapid coalition with 60-60 tie in parliament • Coalition members say government will “hang on” until March 2023 • Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed Silman “back home to the nationalist camp.”
Authorities are not concerned about serious illness “at this stage,” but Health Ministry director-general Nachman Ash the significance of the new variant is still unknown.
Several other countries, including the U.S. and U.K., have already shortened the quarantine period, but Health Ministry officials remain divided on the issue.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett mandates vaccination certificates in shopping centers • MK Eli Avidar calls the move “madness” and says the public is losing trust in the government.
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz calls the move “highly problematic”; Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked calls it an “important move based on solid intelligence.”
The meeting, only the second by a high-level Israeli official with the P.A. leader since Israel’s new government took office, was authorized by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, says Meretz.
“Our problem is people who don’t get vaccinated. We need [to influence] them a bit; otherwise, we’ll never get out of this,” Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz tells Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked.
More than two million Israelis have already received a third dose of the vaccine, according to the country’s prime minister.
Nitzan Horowitz’s remark “justifying the political and anti-Semitic action of the court at The Hague and its persecution of IDF soldiers is a disgrace to the Israeli Knesset,” says Ayelet Shaked of Yamina.
