The two, said Stern, were fully vaccinated by the end of January in Israel. But he told me although the letters asking that they be permitted to quarantine in their own apartment were “clear,” the federal public health official they dealt with could not have cared less. “This person was so cold and her actions so calculated,” the 78-year-old said this week. “It was like I was talking to a wall.” Rabbi Moshe Stern, 78. Photo by Supplied She refused to look at their vaccination papers and kept screaming at them that they needed to go to a hotel, he claimed.