Border security officers in Ben Gurion airport have noticed that dozens of passengers in the past few days, many of them Chareidim, have been presenting negative COVID-19 tests all from the same doctor at the same medical clinic. According to a report that appeared on the Ynet news website, this is likely the beginning of a new industry of falsified negative Corona tests.
It is suspected that dozens of travelers have already left Israel under the pretense of not having the disease by using these falsified test reports.
Kikar Shabbos reported that the clinic is located in one of the Chareidi neighborhoods in Jerusalem. It is unclear whether the doctor gave negative results to anyone who asked, or if it is simply one form that was copied and reproduced in a forged manner.
A source at the airport told Ynet that the forms aroused suspicion because many of them were worded similarly, stating that the bearer had recovered from the disease and confirmed that the person has had two negative tests already. More than 20 forms bore the name of the same doctor and many others had the name of the same clinic. “We will be passing on the forms to the police in order to sort out,” said the source.
The clinic told Ynet “Our tests are up to standard and recognized by the Health Ministry. We have not had any problems at our clinic.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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5 Responses
Why not there are doctors here that sign vaccination confirmation for non vaccinated children going to yeshivahs
20 forms doesn’t seem like an unreasonable number
Why has YW been making a point lately to highlight negative goings-on in the frum community??
If we want to know of all the scandals in the chareidi community (which is totally in Issur of rechilus, but whatever) then we could go to the Lost Messiah blog or Chafraud Depravitch….
What’s the problem? Isn’t it expected that most people who have been ill and have recovered would have two successive negative tests? I would expect that to be the norm! And of course , if they all live in the same neighborhood, they would all go to the same clinic. This sounds like a witch hunt to me.
If the Border Security officers had a strong suspicion that the Covid forms were fake WHY would they allow those presenting the fake documents to get through the departure check??? It seems like there is no real effort to enforce the rules.