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The next hearing is set for March 16 with an expanded bench of seven judges.
The court ruling came in response to petitions against the law by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Physicians for Human Rights–Israel. Opposition lawmakers, the Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians, and others have also expressed opposition to the legislation, on privacy grounds.
An Israeli receives a COVID-19 vaccine shot at a Leumit vaccination center in Tel Aviv, March 8, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Also Tuesday, a labor court in Tel Aviv allowed a town in central Israel to furlough an assistant at a special education school who has refused to be vaccinated.
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A health worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine in East Jerusalem on February 3, 2021. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
With coronavirus cases rising and conspiracy theories chilling vaccine turnout, Arab Israeli health officials say they are facing an uphill battle to crush the infection curve before the advent of the Ramadan holiday in about a month.
“Just a month ago, our situation was far better than that of the Jewish community and the ultra-Orthodox. But the situation for us today is now worse than both of them,” said Dr. Bishara Bisharat, who works in the Health Ministry’s coronavirus response unit.
Netanyahu, Health Minister Edelstein on hand as 5 millionth dose given to Janet Lavi-Azulay, 34, who is pregnant; premier says kids to get the shots soon