UAE cabinet approves establishment of embassy in Tel Aviv in further sting to Palestinians
The Biden administration reacted by saying America hopes to build on the success of Israel’s normalisation agreements
24 January 2021 • 4:50pm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures during a welcoming ceremony upon the landing of a United Arab Emirates airline flydubai flight at Tel Aviv
Credit: Pool/Reuters
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced the establishment of its embassy in Tel Aviv as the US national security advisor announced that America hopes to build “on the success of Israel’s normalisation agreements” under the Biden administration.
Israel’s Ministry of Health published on Sunday a redacted copy of a contract it signed with drugmaker Pfizer for the exchange of public medical data in return for the swift supply of Covid-19 vaccines. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had people guessing and concerned over the potential for privacy violations from the exchange after first announcing it earlier this month, but according to what can be seen of the document, it seems set to include only data that’s publicly available.
So far more than two million Israelis, making up more than 22% of the total population, have received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, making Israel a world leader in the administering of coronavirus vaccines. One of the main reasons the country has managed to do so was Pfizer s willingness to ship considerable numbers of doses to Israel. Pfizer rushed the vaccines over partly because Israel had reportedly paid $47 per vaccine, double than most countries and partly because it agreed to
Israel is rapidly on its way to vaccinating its entire population for Covid-19 having already vaccinated two million people, more than 20% of its residents, in under three weeks. How was Israel able to establish such an efficient vaccination mechanism and receive such a large amount of doses from producers Pfizer and Moderna while other countries like the U.S., Germany, the U.K. or France, not only didn’t get millions of doses, but seemingly can’t even take advantage of the quotas they did receive and efficiently vaccinate their people?
Over the weekend it was revealed that as part of the agreement between Pfizer and Israel, it was agreed that in exchange for the millions of vaccine doses, the state will provide the drugmakers with access to vast medical databases with digital information about the people who have been vaccinated. Israel, in effect, agreed to function as a global experimentation laboratory, with the findings about its public to be used to determine vaccinati