As he gingerly lowered himself into a chair after his first coronavirus vaccine jab, Simcha Barlow, a 75-year-old Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jew, said deciding to get inoculated was simple. Strategies to promote vaccination are tailored to specific communities, which for haredim like Barlow has meant engaging top rabbis from the outset, ensuring they would encourage followers to get the jab.
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An Israeli woman gets vaccinated against the COVID-19 coronavirus at the Kupat Holim Meuhedet clinic vaccination centre in Jerusalem, on January 12, 2021. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
As he gingerly lowered himself into a chair after his first coronavirus vaccine jab, Simcha Barlow, a 75-year-old Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jew, said deciding to get inoculated was simple.
“If the rabbis approve, I do not ask any questions at all,” the hobbling Torah scholar told AFP at a clinic in the mainly ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, city of Bnei Brak.
Israel’s initial vaccination rollout appears to be unfolding successfully, with some two million citizens having received the first of two required injections of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab, a pace widely described as the world’s fastest per capita.
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Published: 01.13.21 , 09:34
As he gingerly lowered himself into a chair after his first coronavirus vaccine jab, Simcha Barlow, a 75-year-old ultra-Orthodox man, said deciding to get inoculated was simple. If the rabbis approve, I do not ask any questions at all, the hobbling Torah scholar told AFP at a clinic in the predominantly Haredi city of Bnei Brak.
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Israel s initial vaccination rollout appears to be unfolding successfully, with some two million citizens having received the first of two required injections of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab, a pace widely described as the world s fastest per capita.