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A teenager receives a vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Tel Aviv, Israel, January 24, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun.
HonestReporting has successfully countered (see here, here, and here) various false media narratives about Israel’s ongoing battle against the coronavirus. Perhaps most pervasive has been the accusation that Jerusalem was preventing the Palestinians from obtaining vaccines. However, the Jewish state has now become the first nation in the world to share COVID-19 inoculations with any external population. Moreover, the Palestinian Authority’s prime minister has announced that tens of thousands of additional jabs would soon be arriving in Ramallah.
Israeli Hospital Partners With National Institutes of Health to Study and Combat COVID-19
Last April, the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, located near Tel Aviv, announced the signing of an “emergency agreement” with the Maryland-based National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct applied scientific and clinical research studies in order to develop coronavirus-related treatments.
The hospital committed to supplying the NIH’s Vaccine Research Center with blood samples, plasma and the COVID-19 virus itself from infected patients in Israel. This was all made possible due to a series of clinical trials the hospital was conducting on possible treatments, including those being developed by major pharmaceutical companies.
December 9th, 2020 comments
Palestinian-Canadian Izzeldin Abuelaish is an advocate for peace, despite the various tragedies he has encountered in his life, and strongly believes that education is the key to long-lasting peace in the Middle East and around the world.
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish was the first Palestinian doctor to work in an Israeli hospital. Tragedy struck on January 16, 2009, when Abuelaish’s three daughters and niece were killed in his own home by an Israeli tank fire attack.
While one would assume that such a devastating tragedy would cause a father to want to seek revenge on those who took the lives of his beloved daughters, Abuelaish turned his grief into hope and has become an advocate for peace and for the education of girls in the Middle East. Over the years, his message of peace and hope in response to the devastating loss of his children has earned him several humanitarian awards worldwide.
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