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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein meet Herzl and Fadila Levy, the country's 500,000th people to be vaccinated against COVID-19, at a Clalit Health Services vaccination facility in Jerusalem, on Dec. 29, 2020. Photo: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Netanyahu, health minister meet 500,000th Israeli to receive COVID-19 vaccine

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein on Tuesday congratulated the country’s 500,000th person to be vaccinated against COVID-19. “It warms the heart to see the citizens of Israel joining in to...
A Clalit HMO COVID-19 vaccination center in Jerusalem, on Dec. 28, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Nearly 500,000 Israelis vaccinated as infection rate continues to rise

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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...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein attend a press conference at a Maccabi health fund vaccine center in Tel Aviv on Dec. 13, 2020. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

Netanyahu, Israeli health minister visit HMO vaccination facility in Tel Aviv

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein paid a visit on Sunday to the Maccabi HMO coronavirus vaccination facility in Tel Aviv. The country received the first shipment of pharmaceutical firm Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine...

In surprise move, third top Israeli health official resigns

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Israel’s Health Ministry Deputy Director Itamar Grotto announced his resignation on Sunday in what some in the health-care system described as a “surprising move.” Grotto is the third senior Health Ministry official to resign since...
Medical staff at the coronavirus ward of the Ziv Medical Center in Tzfat, on Oct. 7, 2020. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Israeli Health Ministry publishes results of nationwide COVID-19 serological survey

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According to a nationwide serological survey conducted by the Israeli Health Ministry, SARS-CoV-2 antibodies are present in only 5.5 percent of the country’s population, far from the number required for “herd immunity” from the...
Staff at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem work in the hospital's COVID-19 ward on Sept. 23, 2020. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

In a first, Israel surpasses US in daily COVID mortality relative to population

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Israel’s daily tally of coronavirus deaths per million people surpassed that of the United States on Tuesday for the first time since the onset of the global pandemic. According to a report by a task...
Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein holds a press conference about the coronavirus lockdown on Sept.17, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Israeli health minister: Public must understand that ‘we are at war’

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With less than a day before Israel becomes the first Western country to impose a second nationwide lockdown to curb the coronavirus pandemic, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein urged the public to adhere to government...
Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman meets with heads of the Yesha Council in Judea and Samaria on Sept. 6, 2020. Photo by Sraya Diamant/Flash90.

Lieberman: Israelis should flout gov’t COVID-19 directives, rely on ‘common sense’

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Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman urged Israelis on Monday to flout government coronavirus directives and rely on “common sense” instead. During a meeting on Monday morning of his party’s Knesset faction, which was widely...
Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein holds a press conference during a visit at the Assuta hospital in Ashdod on Aug. 20, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Israeli, UAE health ministers discuss COVID-19 cooperation

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Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and his United Arab Emirates counterpart, Abdul Rahman Mohammed Al Owais, spoke by phone on Monday and agreed on cooperation between their two countries with regard to the coronavirus...
Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein made an official visit to the headquarters of United Hatzalah of Israel in Jerusalem, Aug. 16, 2020. Credit: United Hatzalah

For The First Time Since Its Inception – United Hatzalah Receives Official Visit From...

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Israel’s Health Minister, Yuli Edelstein, visited United Hatzalah of Israel’s headquarters on Sunday, in an official capacity. Minister Edelstein is the first health minister in Israel who arranged an official visit to the organization since its founding in 2006. The minister was accompanied by his chief staff as well as a team of high...