Avidar explained that since he is not in an at-risk group and is making sure he is staying healthy, he doesn’t feel he needs to get the vaccine. He also elaborated that he believes that only those who are in a high-risk group should be vaccinated.
“I’m the only one of the MKs who was in Hong Kong during the SARS epidemic, Avidar said. “There were also vaccines there and they talked about the at-risk groups. The government should be telling us: ‘We have the vaccine and there are high-risk groups, we don’t need to scare the public.’
“It’s in the interest of [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and the Health Ministry to scare us,” the MK said in the interview.
His comments led to a storm of responses by several political figures who said they felt he could be harming public health, with some of the harshest comments coming especially from Shas – one of Yisrael Beytenu’s main rivals.
Shas chair MK Michael Malkieli sent a letter to the Knesset, accusing Avidar of making “very severe” statements. He wrote that public figures need to serve as an example and that Avidar should “stop such actions, which are hurting the national effort to reduce the infection rate and the return to normal life.”
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“He believes in yoga, in veganism and sports. I don’t think this is the place for party discipline. He believes in different things and we should respect that,” Liberman said in an interview with KAN News.
Liberman stressed that he does believe people should get vaccinated but he does not believe that vaccination should be mandatory.
“We don’t know anything about this vaccine,” Liberman said. “I don’t know the length of time for which it is effective.”
A report published by Maccabi Health Services shared Friday showed that vaccine effectiveness in Israel is now 93%, and fewer than 0.1% of Israelis who received their second dose of the Pfizer vaccine contracted COVID-19.
