Tel-Chai Nation

There's been impressive progress made to vaccinate as much of the Israeli populace as possible against the effects of Covid19, and that includes whatever medicines are arriving now:

Some 700,000 doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine landed in Israel on Sunday and were met at Ben-Gurion Airport by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein.

“This is a great day for Israel, with a huge shipment that has arrived in the framework of Operation Back to Life: a plane full of injections of encouragement,” Netanyahu said, informing the public that next Sunday an additional shipment would arrive, “and we will start vaccinating the next group: people aged 50-60.”

According to the agreement between Israel and Pfizer, the company will deliver tens of thousands of doses to Israel every week until every Israeli who wants to be inoculated has been jabbed.

To get this done, the prime minister said that the country would increase the number of people vaccinated per day to 170,000 beginning immediately. Coronavirus Commissioner Prof. Nachman Ash said later that the goal was to vaccinate as many as 200,000 people per day – some with their first dose and some with their second.

“Tonight, we will sit down with the health funds and prepare for the next stage of the vaccination campaign,” Edelstein said.

“I am certain that our amazing medical teams… will get this done,” Netanyahu added.

The announcement came on the same day the Health Ministry announced that more than 72% of Israelis over the age of 60 had been vaccinated against the virus and that Edelstein said he had met with his staff and instructed them to evaluate the possibility of offering vaccinations throughout the night.

I do wonder why Naftali Bennett doesn't appreciate this, to name but one phony who calls himself "right-wing"? In fact, what about Gideon Saar? Those two should be as ashamed of themselves as those on the left (Yair Lapid, Moshe Yaalon, for example) who refuse to appreciate the effort made to provide everyone possible with vaccinations so they can return to leading normal lives again and not have to worry about this terrible pandemic again for a long time. The vaccination drive Netanyahu is working on is something that should be applauded.

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