Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis (Courtesy)
“I have to say there will not be tens of thousands in a concert,” Alroy-Preis said, adding that Israel was still seeing 6,000 new positive tests a day on average with a 7% positive rate.
“We still need to be careful, we are in a critical stage and even when you have a ‘green pass’ it does not mean there is no coronavirus,” she said referring to the government plan to open up a range of public events to those holding a vaccination certificate.
The issue of vaccine hesitancy and skepticism is a growing concern as Israel’s world-leading inoculation campaign has slowed in recent weeks. Over 3,780,710 Israelis have received the first dose of vaccine and 2,415,692 have received both doses nearly a quarter of the entire population.
Stuart Winer is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel.
Welfare Minister Itzik Shmuli speaks during a ceremony at the ministry s headquarters in Jerusalem on May 18 2020. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)
Welfare Minister Itzik Shmuli announced Wednesday that he was taking a break from the government and politics, saying he was taking responsibility for the “mistake” of joining Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
In a post to his Facebook page, Labor party member Shmuli wrote: “I decided to take time off from politics to consider my future path forward.”
“It is not my intention to continue to run in the coming elections neither in the Labor party nor in any other political framework that would be open for me,” said Shmuli, who became a Knesset member in 2013 having previously served as a prominent leader of the social protest movement and National Student Union chairman.
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Israel’s new Labor Party leader pulls out of unity government
“The Labor Party is starting over,” says Merav Michaeli, who just won the primary.
By Danielle Roth-Avneri
Israel s new Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli, at a polling station in Tel Aviv on Jan. 24, 2021. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
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(January 26, 2021 / Israel Hayom) Newly elected Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli announced Monday that her party is pulling out of Israel’s unity government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Michaeli, who won the party primaries on Sunday with 77 percent of the vote, ordered Economy Minister Amir Peretz and Labor and Social Services Minister Itzik Shmuli, both members of Labor, to resign.
Merav Michaeli. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
JNS.org – Newly elected Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli announced Monday that her party is pulling out of Israel’s unity government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Michaeli, who won the party primaries on Sunday with 77 percent of the vote, ordered Economy Minister Amir Peretz and Labor and Social Services Minister Itzik Shmuli, both members of Labor, to resign.
The vote followed the resignation last month of Peretz, who announced that he would be stepping down after the party had its worst showing ever in the last election, and after having lost the support of many Labor voters when he broke his campaign promise not to join a coalition headed by Netanyahu.