Tourism minister embarrassed that the country didn’t build up COVID tracker

Published on : Wednesday, December 8, 2021

On Tuesday, the Tourism Minister of Israel, Yoel Razvozov, explained that the country should be feeling guilty that it has not yet developed a civilian COVID tracking application.

“Shame on us that we have not yet developed a civilian application,” Razvozov said. “Why should the Shin Bet [Israel Security Agency] be activated – as if it has nothing to do but locate people with coronavirus?”

At the Maariv-Walla Business Summit in Herzliya, the minister was speaking where he spoke about the government’s hurried decision to shut down the airport to foreigners once again in the middle of the Omicron variant.

“If there were civilian apps, it would help us in the tourism industry,” he contended. “I brought it up more than once or twice. I will continue to insist on it.

“We cannot call ourselves the Start-Up Nation when we run the [Shin Bet] tracker.”

Just few days back in November, the country’s borders had opened up to individual tourists and, before actually people in good numbers could travel to the country, Israel banned international tourists from entering once again for at least two weeks.

In the summit, a tour guide stated that he was allocating food boxes to his colleagues who are out of work and suffering for nearly two years.

To quote Razvozov, “I understand your plight. When we sit in meetings, everyone who brings home a salary cannot help but think of people who do not bring bread home. We are working on job security. It is difficult for me to separate out the tour guides from the 90,000 unemployed. Ideas have come up about how to handle this. There is money. Tour guides under the age of 45 received funds until the end of June and [those] over 45 until the end of October.”

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