Israel and UK consider green travel corridor

• Published date: 21 April 2021
• Date: 21 April 2021
• Author: Michal Raz-Chaimovitz

Gove, who is Minister of the Cabinet Office, was accompanied by England's Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van-Tam, and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Health Yuli Edelstein and Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabi Ashkenazi. They also toured Israel's testing facilities at Ben Gurion airport.

Israel has vaccinated 5.36 million of its population of 9.3 million with at least one vaccine dose and nearly 5 million with two jabs, the highest proportion of any country in the world. The UK, which has vaccinated 33 million people and given a second jab to over 10 million, has also operated one of the world's most successful vaccine rollouts, so a reciprocal tourist arrangement for vaccinated travelers - a green travel corridor - would be a natural fit. Both...