Tag: Yuli Edelstein
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...
Netanyahu, Israeli health minister visit HMO vaccination facility in Tel Aviv
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
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...
Israeli Health Ministry publishes results of nationwide COVID-19 serological survey
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...
In a first, Israel surpasses US in daily COVID mortality relative to population
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: Public must understand that ‘we are at war’
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...
Lieberman: Israelis should flout gov’t COVID-19 directives, rely on ‘common sense’
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, UAE health ministers discuss COVID-19 cooperation
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...
For The First Time Since Its Inception – United Hatzalah Receives Official Visit From...
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...
Israeli health minister says coronavirus infection rate flattening out
Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein expressed cautious optimism on Sunday that the coronavirus curve was again flattening, but said that the numbers were still far too high.
During a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister...