Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel s US correspondent based in New York
(L-R) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Joe Biden and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (Collage/AP)
The Biden administration will reportedly push for a two-state solution based on the pre-1967 lines, with mutually agreed upon land swaps, reinstating US policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to more traditionally held positions than those of former president Donald Trump.
A memo titled “The US Palestinian Reset and the Path Forward,” which was revealed Wednesday to the Abu Dhabi-based The National, also showed that the Biden administration is planning on announcing a $15 million aid package in coronavirus-related humanitarian assistance for the Palestinians as early as this month.
Covid-19: F.D.A. Grants Emergency Authorization for Johnson & Johnson Vaccine
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Younger American military service members are declining shots. Some colleges and universities, fearing attrition, are pledging to reopen more fully this fall.
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A doctor receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at a government hospital in Klerksdorp, South Africa, last week.Credit.Shiraaz Mohamed/Associated Press
The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday authorized Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, beginning the rollout of millions of doses of a third effective vaccine that could reach Americans by early next week.
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COVID-19: New Zealand, Palestinian authorities institute new lockdowns
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A paramedic with Magen David Adom, Israel s National Emergency Organization, administers the Pfizer-Biotech coronavirus vaccine to a Palestinian woman at the Qalandiya Checkpoint Tuesday. Photo by Debbie Hill/UPI | License Photo
Feb. 27 (UPI) New Zealand and the Palestinian Authority both announced new lockdown policies Saturday as global COVID-19 cases continued a slow decline from January s peak, and the number of deaths fell even further.
As of Saturday 113 million cases of the novel coronavirus have been reported around the globe, according to the World Health Organization.
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Of those, 2.5 million people have died.
After sprinting ahead in the race to inoculate its population against the coronavirus, Israel has struck a deal with Pfizer, promising to share vast troves of medical data with the international drug giant in exchange for the continued flow of its hard-to-get vaccine.
Proponents say the deal could allow Israel to become the first country to vaccinate most of its population, while providing valuable research that could help the rest of the world.
But critics say the deal raises major ethical concerns, including possible privacy violations and a deepening of the global divide that enables wealthy countries to stockpile vaccines as poorer populations, including Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza, have to wait longer to be inoculated.