MK Yakov Asher: 'Vaccines are a great and unprecedented achievement'

• Author: Hezki Baruch
• Date: 01 March 2021
• Published date: 01 March 2021
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

Under the plan, hotels and sports events have been allowed to reopen to those immune to coronavirus, and event halls and restaurants are expected to follow suit.

"The Prime Minister brought a great and unprecedented achievement with the vaccines, and all governments of the world are standing in awe of this achievement, but we don't take it anywhere," Asher said. "Instead of advancing the Green Passport, we hold back on the reopening of the economy and harm the vaccinated public's faith in us."

"Within a few days, we will have over five million citizens who received the first dose of the vaccine or recovered from coronavirus. The danger to them is almost nonexistent, they needed to have started on the Green Passport path, a path that I initiated and advanced over the course of several months. But that isn't moving forward, because they are trying to hold the stick from both ends. I am not saying that we should allow mass parties, but we need to expand the Passport and reopen event halls as soon as possible to allow people to get married, and we need to reopen large restaurants according to an appropriate protocol. They have the ability to coordinate events with a list of only attendees who have a Green Passport, without danger.

"It's unthinkable...