People walk in Jerusalem on December 16, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
1. Lock till you pop: Israel’s stumbling path toward a third lockdown is high on the media agenda Thursday morning, with infections piling up like presents beneath the Hanukkah bush.
“Between vaccines and a lockdown,” reads the top front page headline of Yedioth Ahronoth. “Vaccine storage is filling up, but in the meantime the virus is rearing up — and Israel is in a race against time,” the paper continues.
It’s not much of a race, Prof. Eli Waxman, who advises the government’s pandemic advisory team, tells Army Radio: “We need to take steps immediately. Until the population is vaccinated to a wide enough degree, it will take a long time. The current outbreak needs to be stopped some other way.”