By Ben Kerrigan-
UK cabinet minister, Michael Gove, has arrived in Israel on a low key visit to have talks about vaccination passports already operational in Israel.
The British minister was accompanied on the small BAe HS146 aircraft by Jonathan Van-Tam, one of England’s deputy Chief Medical Officers. It is believed Mr Gove wants to examine all the details surrounding the overall experience of vaccination passports in Israel, and discuss how UK and Israel can work together in applying the same scheme in Britain.
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There has been no official confirmation from the British government that the scheme will be applied in the UK, but Boris Johnson has expressed an interest in establishing vaccination passports in the UK. Mr Gove was tasked with the job of conducting an assessment of the ethical, legal and philosophical benefits of vaccination passports, which should have been published last week. The cabinet’s visit to Israel may be part of that process.
Mps have opposed the idea, calling it discriminatory, but experts believe the British government still plans to implement the scheme.
Gove is expected to visit Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit.
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He will also be given a tour of testing facilities at Ben Gurion Airport “with a view to creating [a] flight corridor between Israel and the UK”, Pfeffer said on Twitter.
Restaurants and bars, as well as sports and music venues in Israel reopened a month ago, after nearly a year of lockdowns and strict social distancing.
Israel has already mandated vaccination passports to members of the public wanting to mix freely in the country, in the form of green passes.
Millions of Israelis downloaded their green passes after the government rolled them out, following a massively successful PR campaign encouraging us to use them.
The pass can be either physical or displayed in a mobile phone app, and is available in Hebrew only.
It is valid for six months beginning a week after the second vaccine dose, or until the end of June 2021 for recovered patients.
The scheme is considered to be tyrannical , creating a privileged “vaccinated class” of people in a new two-tier society.
Israel’s quick vaccine rollout is considered to have been the best in the world, and the country will not be allowing travel there from people who have not been vaccinated.
Quite possibly, the same plan is on the way to the UK.
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