Israel law allows authorities to know names of unvaccinated people
An Israeli woman shows her “green passport,” a pass for people vaccinated against Covid, to a show at Yarkon Park, Tel Aviv, February 24, 2021. REUTERS - AMIR COHEN
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Israel passes controversial law.
It allows the authorities to know the names of people not vaccinated against Covid-19.
This legislation raises a lot of concern for the privacy of those who refuse vaccination.
In protest, dozens of people demonstrated in Tel Aviv to denounce a violation of “individual freedoms”.
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With our correspondent in Jerusalem,
Sami Boukhelifa
For its defenders, this law is essential.
It allows the Ministry of Health to transfer data on unvaccinated people to municipalities: their name, telephone number and address, in particular.
These will conduct a local survey.
In their constituency, the agents of the town hall can directly contact unvaccinated people.
Objective: understand this refusal and try to convince the refractory.
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For its detractors, this law is liberticidal, it constitutes "an invasion of privacy".
According to them, even if the authorities do not make vaccination against Covid-19 compulsory, they are finding back door ways to achieve it.
This law has finished upsetting part of the Israeli population.
Many voices had already been raised this week against the implementation of the "green passport".
This document allows Israelis vaccinated or cured of Covid-19, to access, among other things,
sports halls
and museums.
But it is considered discriminatory, just like this new law.
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