Noting lockdown has proven ineffective, top Health Ministry official decries politicization of lockdown among Haredi wheeler-dealers in the Knesset and elsewhere. Despite skyrocketing morbidity rate in the Arab sector, the head of the ministry's coronavirus response in the community reveals few in the community seek to get vaccinated.
Noting recent outbreaks in schools, Health Ministry calls for education system to be shut down in its entirety. In ultimatum, Israel Commerce Forum announces it will open all stores next week if the government does not impose a total and immediate lockdown.
This time, the Left has no clear candidate for prime minister, and more new parties than ever, which will have to form joint lists or risk wasting hundreds of thousands of votes.
"Why can't Israeli Arabs be part of the ruling party? Why vote for radical parties that do nothing for you? Vote for us. Vote for me," PM Netanyahu says during a visit to Umm al-Fahm.
Global media at awe of the incredible speed and success of the Israeli inoculation program that "will most likely become the example of vaccination initiatives worldwide."
Almost a million Israelis vaccinated, putting Israel ahead of the rest of the world.
Israel doesn’t need another center-left party. It needs a stable democracy, which means the Left has to find its way back to presenting an alternative to the Right.
China is eager to distribute its vaccines worldwide, driven by a desire to repair the damage to its image caused by the pandemic that started a year ago in Wuhan.
Some 800,000 Israelis have received the first doses of the COVID vaccine. 5.5% of tests processed are positive, with over 1,000 COVID patients hospitalized and a death toll of 3,314.
Major Israeli news outlets project that while Likud would still best its rivals, PM Netanyahu will be hard-pressed to form a stable coalition. Polls show Blue and White teetering on the edge of the electoral threshold.
