BICOM 21st April 2021 Sky News report on Cabinet Minister Michael Gove’s visit to Israel to study the country’s “green pass” scheme as the UK considers introducing coronavirus vaccine passports. The Cabinet Office minister was accompanied by England’s deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam on the trip, which Downing Street said was “purely Covid-related”. Gove met with meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein. In early April, Gove praised in the Telegraph the Israeli Green Pass and voiced support for adopting a similar system in the UK. One method adopted by Israel is the COVID smartphone app is needed to access facilities such as hotels, gyms, sports venues and theatres. Gove also meet with Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and discussed the ongoing negotiations in Vienna for the US and Iran to return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.