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A healthcare worker prepares a shot of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in the Negev s main Bedouin town of Rahat, on February 17, 2021. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)
Deep in the Negev desert, Bedouin residents of a village deemed illegal by the government say more houses have been demolished than people vaccinated, despite Israel’s world-beating coronavirus inoculation drive.
“No one is vaccinated here,” said Adnan al-Abari, a maintenance worker at the school in Tel Arad.
Israel is a global leader in coronavirus vaccinations per capita, having administered both recommended shots of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to roughly a third of its nine million citizens, while around half have received at least one injection.