Israel launches COVID-19 inoculation drive
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Published: 12.19.20 , 21:50
Israel has launched its vaccination effort for COVID-19 on Saturday evening with a host of top officials receiving the shot to encourage the Israeli public to get vaccinated.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became the first Israeli to receive a vaccine against coronavirus, followed by Health Minister Yuli Edelstein shortly after.
Health Ministry Director General Prof. Hezi Levy and the head of Sheba Medical Center, Israel s largest hospital, Prof. Yitshak Kreiss were also inoculated for the virus.
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Health Minister Yuli Edelstein was the second person in the nation to receive the vaccination against COVID-19 on December 19, 2020, right after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer.
On December 19, 2020, Israel’s Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, the second person in the State of Israel on Saturday evening to be vaccinated against the deadly COVID-19 virus, informed those gathered that the procedure fell on a “personally significant day” for him.
On December 19, 1984, Yuli Yoel Edelstein â a refusenik born in the former Soviet Union â was convicted on trumped-up charges of drug possession after having applied to emigrate to Israel.
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Hard-right lawmakers fume after video shows a Palestinian chucking a fire bomb toward a soldier, who doesn’t respond.
“This story is just insane,” Yamina MK Bezalel Smotrich tweets. “But it’s not the soldier’s fault. The judicial system in the State of Israel which behaves like in Sodom is to blame.”
Jerusalem Minister Rafi Peretz of the Jewish Home party says the incident should have ended with a “neutralized terrorist.”
“Dead or alive,” he writes on Twitter, saying IDF commanders must ensure such an incident “doesn’t repeat itself. I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
Netanyahu starts Israel rollout, gets COVID-19 vaccine
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Published 19 December 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a Covid-19 vaccine jab on Saturday, kicking off a national rollout over the coming days.
Netanyahu, 71, and Israel’s health minister were injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine live on TV at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv.
“I asked to be vaccinated first, together with Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, to serve as personal examples and encourage you to be vaccinated,” Netanyahu told the television audience.
Each recipient must receive a booster shot in three weeks for optimal protection from the novel coronavirus.
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The military is reportedly looking into the conduct of an IDF soldier who didn’t fire his weapon after a Palestinian in the West Bank threw a molotov cocktail at him.
Video of the incident, near the Kedumim settlement, shows the suspect standing at a bus stop before crossing the road to get in a car. After exiting the vehicle, he crosses back to the other side of the road, where the soldier approaches him.
After the two speak briefly, the suspect pulls out what appears to be a fire bomb and sets it alight. He then threw throws it at the solder, but misses, before running back across the street.