Yamina MK tests positive for COVID

Yomtob Kalfon speaks at a protest in Jerusalem, on July 17, 2021. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
Yomtob Kalfon speaks at a protest in Jerusalem, on July 17, 2021. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Yamina MK Yomtob Kalfon tests positive for COVID-19, joining a long line of officials who have been infected over the past week.

Yesterday, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid tested positive for COVID, and at least half a dozen other MKs also have the virus. Public Security Minister Omer Barlev also recently tested positive.

So far, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett — who has been vaccinated three times — has continued to test negative despite his exposure to several COVID patients.

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