
Israel's prime minister threatens no-show if COP26 organizers fail to fix wheelchair access issue
CNN
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has told COP 26 organizers to fix an issue with wheelchair access to the main venue or he is cancelling his appearance at the event on Tuesday.
The sharply worded threat came after Israel's Energy Minister, Karine Elharrar, who suffers from muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair, was unable to attend Monday's proceedings.
According to an official travelling with the Prime Minister's delegation to Scotland, Israeli officials spent two hours trying to get Minister Elharrar into the COP venue Monday but "due to it not being fully wheelchair accessible, the efforts were unsuccessful and the Minister could not enter."

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