Meet Ashraf Jabari: The Palestinian populist
Ashraf Jabari attends the Moreshet Conference of the Besheva group, on Feb. 12, 2017.
(JNS) - With a mask resting below his mouth, which just took in its third or fourth cigarette of the last hour, Palestinian reformer and businessman Asharf Jabari said he hasn t received the COVID vaccine yet. And that s not because he s not interested in it or because Israel hasn t provided any supply to the Palestinian Authority, as some news outlets are wont to report. They [the Palestinian Authority] want it, but they re waiting for the vaccine from Russia, Jabari said in Hebrew, just one of the truth-bombs that the 47-year-old dropped along with his cigarette ash during an intervie.