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How has tiny Israel beat out bigger countries on COVID-19 vaccinations, securing a steady stream of vials and inoculating a larger share of its citizenry than any other nation?
Israel paid a premium, locked in an early supply of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines and struck a unique deal: vaccines for data.
The nation of some 9 million promised Pfizer a swift vaccine rollout, along with data from Israel’s centralized trove of medical statistics to study “whether herd immunity is achieved after reaching a certain percentage of vaccination coverage in Israel,” according to their agreement.
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How has tiny Israel beat out bigger countries on COVID-19 vaccinations, securing a steady stream of vials and inoculating a larger share of its citizenry than any other nation?
Israel paid a premium, locked in an early supply of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines and struck a unique deal: vaccines for data.
The nation of some 9 million promised Pfizer a swift vaccine rollout, along with data from Israel s centralized trove of medical statistics to study whether herd immunity is achieved after reaching a certain percentage of vaccination coverage in Israel, according to their agreement.
West Bank Settlers Pressure Netanyahu Ahead Of March Vote By Michael BLUM
01/28/21 AT 4:58 AM
Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank are demanding concessions from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of a March general election which could hinge on a battle for right-wing votes.
While most countries consider all Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal, Israel broadly divides them into two categories: government-recognised settlements and so-called wildcat outposts.
In the former, Israel aims to provide similar services water, electricity and the like as it does to citizens within its internationally agreed borders.
Wildcat settlements, often ramshackle collections of portacabins set up by hardline religious nationalists deep inside the West Bank, generally have no connection to the Israeli grid.
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What are Palestinian voters asking for? January 28, 2021 at 10:46 am | Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
A Palestinian man enters the offices of the Central Elections Commission in Gaza City, on January 17, 2021 [MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images] January 28, 2021 at 10:46 am
When Hamas won the 2006 elections, Israel imposed a siege on Ismail Haniyeh s government. The siege was supported by the US, the EU and Arab countries, as no major capitals in the Arab world would deal with the democratically-elected Palestinian government.
The Arab countries reacted to the blockade in favour of the Israeli occupation authorities for two reasons. First of all, they hate all political Islam movements, especially the Muslim Brotherhood, Haniyeh s Hamas is an off-shoot of the Brotherhood. Moreover, the Arab world submitted to US pressure linked to mutual interests and financial aid.