The World Health Organization has raised “concerns” about the unequal distribution of coronavirus vaccines in Israel, which has given shots to more than 20% of its population, and the occupied territories, where Palestinians have yet to receive any
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A man wears a protective face mask as he walks by the closed Habima Theater in Tel Aviv, on October 20, 2020. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90)
Deputy Attorney General Raz Nizri warned Sunday evening that Tel Aviv could not open cultural venues to vaccinees if the government does not give its stamp of approval, after the city’s mayor vowed to do so next month.
“As long as the restriction stands, a local authority large and significant though it may be is not permitted to make its own rules and form independent regulations for the return of the culture sector,” Nizri wrote in a letter.
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