COVID-19: MKs volunteer to present Green Pass to enter Knesset

• Author: GIL HOFFMAN
• Published date: 29 September 2021

MKs faced criticism for voting to limit workplaces with coronavirus regulations but not applying the rules to themselves. The Green Pass is required for non-MKs in the building, as well as for teachers and other state employees. But MKs have legal immunity, and they do not need the pass.

Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy presented his own Green Pass and asked MKs to volunteer to do the same. But he said he would not obligate any MK to do so.

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"MKs must be allowed to go anywhere unconditionally, and that is an important democratic principle," Levy said. "They are not disconnected from the people. They are representing the people."

Coalition chairwoman Idit Silman (Yamina), who heads the Knesset Health Committee, started an...