Tel-Chai Nation

The Coronavirus crisis is still a problem, and now, it's affected a member of the anti-Israeli Joint Arab List:

MK Sami Abou Shahadeh of the Joint List announced Thursday that he tested positive for the coronavirus days after being photographed in crowds not wearing a mask, forcing the Knesset to suspend most activities Thursday.

Some 700 workers at the Knesset were told not to come to work, and committee meetings and other activities planned for Thursday were canceled, according to Hebrew-language media.

Abou Shahadeh, 44, entered quarantine two days ago after his driver was diagnosed with the pathogen.

Authorities were checking who Abou Shahadeh may have come into contact with while he was at the Knesset.

In an interview with the Kan public broadcaster, Abou Shahadeh said he had been in contact with thousands of people.

“I went to comfort mourners and also to family events and demonstrations,” he said. “I was on committees, in the plenary and even the cafeteria.”

The Walla news site reported he paid a visit to the mourning tent set up by the family of Iyad Halak, a 32-year-old East Jerusalem man with special needs who was shot to death by police on Saturday.

Pictures of him visiting the family and at a protest showed him not wearing a mask as he stood shoulder to shoulder with others.

It's regrettable if an impaired man was gunned down. But that doesn't mean there shouldn't still be responsibility, and this charlatan certainly didn't approach the issue that way. He's the second known Knesset member after the selfish Yaakov Litzman to fall ill with it.

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