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Two months into its mass coronavirus vaccination campaign, Israel sees a drop in COVID infections and in the number of serious cases. Israel exited its third nationwide lockdown, but some restrictions remain on inbound and outbound flights. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, 5,988 Israelis have died of the virus. Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have received 30,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, and 2,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine donated by Israel. It may take a while still for a mass vaccination campaign to get under way in the Palestinian territories. A total ...

Their public vaccination campaign has gone well, although there are complaints about Jerusalem not yet offering the vaccine to all Palestinians.

Rabbi Meshulam Halevi Soloveitchik died on January 31. The number of people that died from Corona in January reached a one-month record high of 1,455. That, however, didn’t deter some 10,000 Orthodox Jews from attending the funeral. This blatant disregard for clear government instructions prohibiting public assembly for any purpose enraged many Israelis who just don’t understand why, of all people, the Orthodox fail to adhere to the biblical commandment to “watch yourselves very carefully” (Deut. 4:15), which essentially means to not put your life at risk unnecessarily. This funeral p...

Palestinians have been excluded from Israel's impressive vaccine rollout so far INSIDER 2/6/2021 esnodgrass@businessinsider.com (Erin Snodgrass) © Photo by HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images A Palestinian health worker gets vaccinated against Covid-19 at Dura hospital, west the West Bank city of Hebron, on February 4, 2021. - The Palestinian Authority began vaccinating health workers in the occupied West Bank against Covid-19, after a pressure campaign on Israel to provide the jabs. Photo by HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images Israel is leading the rest of the world with its s...

Adam Rasgon, The New York Times Published: 05 Feb 2021 02:52 PM BdST Updated: 05 Feb 2021 02:52 PM BdST Palestinians wearing protective face masks sit at Shifa hospital, Gaza City, Nov. 22, 2020. Reuters Palestinian medical workers walk as they arrive to collect swab samples from people to be tested for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the southern Gaza Strip January 14, 2021. Reuters Israel quickly became the world leader in vaccinating its population against COVID-19, but almost all Palestinian residents of the occupied West Bank are still waiting for their first doses of the inoc...