The Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Health angrily abandoned a discussion in the Economics Committee, in a discussion on the opening of B & Bs • MK Yaakov Margie: "Grotto's conduct is not acceptable"
Prof. Grotto
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Gideon Markovich
An unusual confrontation took place today (Monday) between MK Miki Levy (Yesh Atid) and the Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Itamar Grotto, during a discussion regarding the tourism industry in the Knesset's Economics Committee.
During the discussion, Prof. Grotto referred to the opening of the B & Bs, saying: "They will open in front of the hotels together with the trade in phase three, we are going towards phase two and in the Ministry of Health we will aim for the opening of the B & Bs in phase three."
Immediately after Grotto's remarks, MK Levy burst out and asked loudly: "Why not open the B & Bs?
Where is the logic?
Can't you be criticized? "Afterwards, Prof. Grotto immediately left the discussion, which reached high tones.
Photo: Knesset Channel
MK Yaakov Margi said in response to the incident: "Grotto's behavior is unacceptable.
If he is stressed by the situation, he will take time off - this is not how a functionary behaves.
If he does not know how to control himself, he will take a vacation or his employer will take him to the hospital.
Earlier, the representative of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Ashi Shalmon, was one of the first to speak at the discussion about the tourism industry and referred to the possibility of tourists entering Israel. "The direction is that when hotels open, foreign tourists will be able to enter Israel," To the masses of tourists from Canada, Korea, Japan and other green countries, we are promoting this matter. "
MK Ayelet Shaked said that "the tourism industry is the first to be hit and the last to recover.
It's a livelihood for thousands of families and a basic need for people to ventilate, it's just unnecessary panic.
There are testing laboratories all over the world at the airports as early as June, we hope that another week the laboratory at Ben Gurion Airport will start working, there is no reason why foreign tourists can not come in with tests. Prof. Grotto has been promising me for two months He tells me 'sign tomorrow' and nothing happens. "
MK Miki Levy / Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Prof. Grotto replied that "we have an outline for the entry of tourists, the rapid tests are something we are very much promoting, we support the laboratory at Ben Gurion Airport and overall we are progressing.
One of our problems is that we were a red country and now fortunately we are going in the direction of a green country.
We will shorten isolation for businessmen who return to Israel.
It is possible to promote a tourist outline that will come from green countries, the problem is that all the countries that were once green have turned red.
Greece is on its way to becoming a red country and so too Bulgaria has become red and more.
The procedures are ready and awaiting approval. "