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A Magen David Adom paramedic holds up a vile of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, before inoculating Palestinians in a mobile clinic on February 26, 2021, at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP) Pfizer says its COVID-19 — used to inoculate more than half of Israel’s population — is 91% effective in preventing the disease up to six months after receiving the second shot, and poses no serious safety concerns, in updated data for over 12,000 people who took part in its original trials. The US firm and its German partner BioNTech say the vaccine is 100% effect...

9 shares Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing: Your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday. Today’s panel comprises founding editor David Horovitz and Palestinian affairs correspondent Aaron Boxerman, along with host/archaeology reporter Amanda Borschel-Dan. Today’s show opens with a role reversal as Horovitz quizzes Borschel-Dan on the “dazzling” archeological finds recently discovered in the Judean desert by the Israel Antiquities Authority in cooperation with COGAT. We hear about...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is saddened by each of the over 6,000 COVID-19 deaths but asserts it is a relatively low figure. “Six thousand dead is a difficult number for every one of us, but it’s much less than other countries our size,” he tells the Ynet news site. The prime minister vows that “there will unequivocally not be another lockdown,” but then equivocates: New virus mutations could lead to such a result. In an interview with the Ynet news site, the premier also said four more countries were set to normalize their ties with the Jewish state, following in the ...

Health Ministry Director-General Chezy Levy tells reporters he estimates Israel will begin vaccinating children 12 and up against the coronavirus “around May-June.” He says the decision will depend on clinical trials being conducted by vaccine-makers, which he hopes “will be over around the end of spring, beginning of summer.” Chezy Levy, the director-general of the Health Ministry, at a COVID-19 vaccination center in Herzliya on December 20, 2020. (Flash90) He adds that there is no plan to cancel the mask requirement in public, as “even vaccinated individuals can be a source of cor...

An Iowa journalist covering a protest for racial justice was blinded when a police officer shot pepper spray in her face, and jailed for hours, despite telling the officer repeatedly that she was just doing her job, according to video played at the reporter’s trial. Body camera video captured by Des Moines Police Sgt. Natale Chiodo showed Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri in custody on May 31, 2020, her eyes burning from pepper spray. She said she was with the newspaper and asked Officer Luke Wilson why he arrested her, adding that she was in pain and could not see.