Israel is a small country, often described as “the size of New Jersey.” With a population of about 9 million, it also has about as many people as the Garden
250,000 Israelis already received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, and millions more will soon get it. It doesn’t require the usual Israeli arrogance to admit that this is impressive
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We ask whether Netanyahu’s prime time vaccination Saturday night was a PR stunt or whether he should be applauded as the first world leader to publicly get the coronavirus shot, as we assess his successes and failures when it comes to leading Israel through the pandemic.
We also discuss the assault by Iranian hackers against Israeli companies and national security infrastructure in light of the devastating Russian cyber aggression in the United States.
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Dry ice is poured into a box containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as it is prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Michigan, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)
1. Highway to tightened restraint: The coronavirus crisis is front and center in the media world Tuesday morning, as the Health Ministry announces that over 2,000 new cases were recorded Monday.
Several news outlets note that the number of new cases is the highest it has been in some two months, when Israel was still under lockdown but as infection figures slackened from their late September high of nearly 9,000 a day.