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An Israeli woman gets vaccinated against the COVID-19 coronavirus at the Kupat Holim Meuhedet clinic vaccination centre in Jerusalem, on January 12, 2021. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
As he gingerly lowered himself into a chair after his first coronavirus vaccine jab, Simcha Barlow, a 75-year-old Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jew, said deciding to get inoculated was simple.
“If the rabbis approve, I do not ask any questions at all,” the hobbling Torah scholar told AFP at a clinic in the mainly ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, city of Bnei Brak.
Israel’s initial vaccination rollout appears to be unfolding successfully, with some two million citizens having received the first of two required injections of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab, a pace widely described as the world’s fastest per capita.
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Israeli health funds at center of vaccination push
With some 2 million Israelis vaccinated and after being shunned from many efforts to combat pandemic, HMOs existing infrastructure proved it is capable of efficient and rapid delivery of inoculation shots
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Published: 01.13.21 , 09:34
As he gingerly lowered himself into a chair after his first coronavirus vaccine jab, Simcha Barlow, a 75-year-old ultra-Orthodox man, said deciding to get inoculated was simple. If the rabbis approve, I do not ask any questions at all, the hobbling Torah scholar told AFP at a clinic in the predominantly Haredi city of Bnei Brak.
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Israel s initial vaccination rollout appears to be unfolding successfully, with some two million citizens having received the first of two required injections of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab, a pace widely described as the world s fastest per capita.