Just before entering the meeting: An employee in the Prime Minister's Office was found to be sick with the coronavirus

December 26, 2021   

Moments before the opening of the special government meeting in the Golan Heights: In tests conducted this morning (Sunday) before the government meeting, one of the employees of the Prime Minister's Office tested positive for the coronavirus. The identification was made possible thanks to antigen tests that participants were required to perform before entering the meeting. The employee was immediately placed in isolation, and did not come into contact with the Prime Minister or the ministers. Other employees who came into contact with the patient were tested and received a negative result in the rapid test, but in order to take extra precautions, it was decided that they would not participate in the government meeting. This morning, Galei Tzahal reported that three additional employees of the Prime Minister's Office were found to be positive for the coronavirus in recent days. According to sources in the office, the three did not come into contact with the Prime Minister or his close circle. Bennett opened the special meeting, which is being held at Kibbutz Mevo Hama in the Golan Heights, with a statement: "After long and static years, our goal today is to double the settlement in the Golan Heights. To this end, we are strengthening Katzrin with two new neighborhoods and we are establishing two new settlements – 'Asif' and 'Matar'." The ministers voted at the meeting to approve the government plan for the development of the Golan Heights, at a cost of one billion shekels.