The South Carolina Republican calls on the former president to encourage his supporters to get immunized. "No one's being asked to go off to fight radical Islam or fight a foreign enemy. We're being asked to make responsible medical decisions," Graham says.
Health Ministry chief says that unless morbidity rates dramatically drop, a fourth lockdown could be imposed even before the end of August.
Exceeding expectations, Matan Roditi comes in fourth in the 10-kilometer swim and narrowly misses winning a bronze medal. "It's an incredible accomplishment. My goal was to finish in the top eight," he says.
"We cannot and we should not accept countries that have already used most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it, while the world’s most vulnerable people remain unprotected," says World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett: Israel is investing billions to make vaccines available everywhere, and yet a million Israelis refuse to be vaccinated.
"Israel has numerous structural advantages over other countries," says Prof. Uzi Rebhun of Hebrew University, who examined "country-level characteristics of the timing of the coronavirus outbreak and its morbidity and case-fatality rates."
Made up of American Jews and Israeli ballplayers, the team had been predicted to win the bronze medal.
The coronavirus cabinet is expected to debate the possibility of expanding the groups eligible for a third COVID vaccine. Experts say Delta variant "spreads like wildfire" as doctors study whether it makes patients sicker.
Standoff between runner Krystsina Tsimanouskaya and Belarus authorities began when Tsimanouskaya criticized the management of her team, prompting state-run media to crack down on her.
With over 28,000 Israelis aged 60 and over receiving third COVID vaccine dose, Bennett calls for fivefold increase in vaccination pace. Goal is "ambitious yet possible," PM says. Infection rate nears 3% as 2,114 test positive for virus.
