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Israel’s Health Ministry director may not endorse panel’s recommendation to offer additional booster shots if further data suggests hospitalizations lower from new variant

TIMES OF ISRAEL Israel said to delay rollout of 4th COVID shots amid signs Omicron less severe by Staff December 23, 2021 The Health Ministry has reportedly decided that Israel will not begin offering fourth doses of the COVID-19 vaccine … Continue reading

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“Jews purposefully infecting non-Jews just so they become richer? Nah, nothing antisemitic about that”

PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH Abbas’ Advisor: Allah is punishing world with COVID for ignoring Palestinian plight Nan Jacques Zilberdik December 17, 2021 The PA is a master of evading responsibility because it is so easy to blame Israel for everything that goes … Continue reading

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Fines will be imposed on visitors to Israel who do not undergo second PCR test on the third or seventh day after their arrival

ARUTZ SHEVA Bennett decides: Fines for persons arriving in Israel who do not undergo a second PCR test by Ido Ben Porat December 2, 2021 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday evening held a situation assessment on how the Omicron … Continue reading

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Antigen test must be taken in the 24 hours before arrival; move comes after Israel reopened to vaccinated tourists earlier this month

TIMES OF ISRAEL Travelers to Israel can now take rapid test, rather than PCR, to enter country by Staff November 25, 2021 Israel will now admit travelers who took a rapid antigen coronavirus test within 24 hours before their flight, … Continue reading

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“As world talks of possible boosters, and with poorer countries struggling to get shots in arms, developer claims pill could be ‘game-changer’ by simplifying logistics”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Israeli COVID vaccine in pill form to start clinical trial in Tel Aviv by Nathan Jeffay July 22, 2021 A prospective oral coronavirus vaccine is set to start clinical trials in Israel, and the developer believes it … Continue reading

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“The conspiratorial notion that Israel deliberately sent unusable vaccines to the Palestinians would later be exposed by events, after both Israelis and South Koreans happily made use of the doses”

TABLET MAG The Palestinian Vaccine Fiasco by Yair Rosenberg July 7, 2021 …The exchange is a win-win for Israel and South Korea—and a lose-lose for the Palestinian people, who were originally supposed to receive these very vaccines in the exact … Continue reading

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“Israel told its citizens they could stop wearing masks indoors on Tuesday”

REUTERS Israel scraps indoor mask order as COVID-19 infections wane June 15, 2021 srael told its citizens they could stop wearing masks indoors on Tuesday, ending one of its last main restrictions as new COVID-19 infections continued to wane even … Continue reading

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20 second Covid test developed by Israel start-up approved for use in Europe

ALGEMEINER Israeli Rapid COVID-19 Test Gets EU Nod, With Rollout at European Airports Next by Sharon Wrobel March 31, 2021 Israeli startup Newsight Imaging announced Wednesday that its rapid coronavirus screening device SpectraLIT has been granted European approval for commercial … Continue reading

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“So malevolent and false are these claims that they make this Op-Ed in the Forward perhaps the most dishonest account of Israel’s vaccination program that has appeared in the mainstream, English-language press”

CAMERA BLOG Forward Publishes Egregious Lie About Israeli Vaccinations March 9, 2021 Sari Bashi says she is “dismayed” that Israel distributes and withholds COVID-19 vaccines according to ethnicity. This charge of ethnic discrimination is the central premise of her March 8 … Continue reading

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“Rabbi Mendel Fogelman, director of the Central Massachusetts Chabad, said in a statement that Green has been warned multiple times that his activities, statements and other personal pursuits are “contrary to the organization’s mission””

WBUR Central Mass. Jewish Group Dismisses Rabbi For ‘Hostile And Offensive’ Opposition To COVID Vaccine by Philip Marcelo, Associated Press February 5, 2021 A prominent Jewish organization is cutting ties with a longtime Massachusetts rabbi for actively promoting anti-vaccine views … Continue reading

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