Tel Aviv, Dec 27 (IANS) Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett entered quarantine after his daughter tested positive for Covid-19, a government spokesman said in a statement.Bennett's wife and other children have however tested negative, Xinhua news agency quoted the statement as saying.Israel's Ynet news reported that Bennett left a special cabinet meeting held in the Golan Heights in order to enter quarantine after his 14-year-old daughter tested positive.Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton also entered quarantine on Sunday after her daughter tested positive.Bennett had entered quarantine on December 14 after a person on his flight back from a historic visit to the United Arab Emirates tested positive for the virus.Israel has witnessed a surge in Covid-19 cases amid the fast spread of the Omicron variant.
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