Ministry of Health Director-General Nachman Ash said this morning (Sunday) in an interview on Radio 103FM that there is no longer room to consider the obligation to vaccinate.
"I think we still have to go on encouraging, making it compulsory is not a step we have taken to date," Ash said. "Certainly there may be situations where the risk will increase, and the vaccine will be necessary, but this is not the situation at the moment. If a very dangerous variant arrives and the vaccine works of course and there is no response, it will be necessary to vaccinate.
On the trip of Prime Minister Gilat Bennett's wife and the children, he said: "In principle? This is not the time to travel abroad, I say that in general. My recommendation is to postpone travel. "