Tag: Vaccine
One millionth Israeli receives COVID-19 vaccine
Israel vaccinated its millionth citizen against COVID-19 on Friday, just three days after announcing the 500,000th Israeli had received the first dose of the vaccine.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein were on...
Nearly 500,000 Israelis vaccinated as infection rate continues to rise
As Israel’s COVID-19 infection rate on Tuesday approached that recorded in October at the height of the pandemic’s “second wave,” Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein reported that nearly half a million Israelis had received...
Israel approaching 100,000 daily vaccinations, says health minister
Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said on Monday that Israel was approaching 100,000 COVID-19 vaccinations per day and vowed to increase the rate even further.
“So far, we have vaccinated 379,000 people,” said Edelstein, as Israel...
Israel’s chief rabbi, IDF chief of staff roll up sleeves for COVID-19 jab
In an attempt to persuade Israelis to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, a number of public figures in the country—among them Chief Rabbi David Lau, Bnei Brak Mayor Rabbi Avraham Rubinstein and Israel Defense...
Netanyahu opens TikTok account, promotes COVID-19 vaccine
Moments after being the first Israeli to be inoculated against COVID-19 on Saturday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined TikTok by posting his first video outside the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv where he received the vaccine.
“While...
Rabbis and Jewish ethicists hail vaccine for COVID-19, encourage its use
This week, as the U.S. government launched the largest vaccine distribution program in the country’s history, rabbis and Jewish ethicists were united in support of the rollout to battle the coronavirus pandemic, stressing that...
Israel Police to provide security for COVID-19 vaccine shipments
The Israel Police on Wednesday said that its forces will provide an escort for Teva and Health Ministry transports of COVID-19 vaccine to Israel’s various HMOs.
Chief Superintendent Amir Jibli, head of the Operational Directorate...
Israel’s coronavirus coordinator says life will be ‘saner’ by March
With Israel on track to see an average of 2,500 new COVID-19 cases per day within 10 days, reinstating a policy of rigorous restriction was unavoidable, National Coronavirus Project Coordinator Nachman Ash told Israel Hayom on...
Senior Israeli rabbis urge haredi communities to get COVID-19 vaccine
Senior rabbis in Israel on Tuesday issued a decree urging haredi communities to receive the coronavirus vaccine, declaring that “according to all acceptable medical parameters, it has been proven that the vaccines are safe.”
The decree was...
Long Island Jewish Medical Center site of one of first injections of COVID vaccine
Long Island Jewish Medical Center was a site of one of the first injections of the coronavirus vaccine in the United States on Monday.
Sandra Lindsay, an intensive-care unit nurse at the hospital in Queens,...