57-year-old man had recently returned from visit to Turkey, was largely asymptomatic
ByTOI STAFFToday, 8:14 pm
The arrival hall at the almost empty Ben Gurion International Airport on January 25, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
For the first time, an Israeli man who previously recovered from the coronavirus was found Sunday to be reinfected with the so-called South African strain, Hebrew media reported.
The diagnosis came amid continued uncertainty on the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine that Israel is using for its mass inoculation program against the new strains of the virus.
Ziv Yaffe, 57, from the central region of the country, recently returned from Turkey. Speaking to Channel 12 news, he said that whereas during his first infection in August he had “all the symptoms,” the second time around he felt fine.
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Exposing the Big Game 
If I am reading this report correctly… the good news is this Israeli gentleman caught the South African mutation but so far he only has symptoms of a mild cold and his family tests negative, too. If it stays that way and then goes away, that is more good news.