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A health worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine in East Jerusalem on February 3, 2021. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
With coronavirus cases rising and conspiracy theories chilling vaccine turnout, Arab Israeli health officials say they are facing an uphill battle to crush the infection curve before the advent of the Ramadan holiday in about a month.
“Just a month ago, our situation was far better than that of the Jewish community and the ultra-Orthodox. But the situation for us today is now worse than both of them,” said Dr. Bishara Bisharat, who works in the Health Ministry’s coronavirus response unit.
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The time is 1300 BC and Moses has descended from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments that will become the basis of Jewish law. On the barren beige backdrop of the desert, the wandering and weary Jews gather around Moses to hear the divine decree he has received from God himself. Moses lists the commandments with a slight stutter as he is “heavy of mouth and heavy of tongue” (Exodus 4:10). Out of the crowd appears a disheveled, tall, bearded man, his unkempt hair coming down to his shoulders. His head bent in humility, his nervousness is palpable, yet it does not stop him in his quest for clarity.
Alternate Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Benny Gantz, November 17, 2020.
In an interview with Sharq Al-Awsat, Gantz said he is willing to compromise on parts of Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley, he opposes sovereignty and is against legalizing new settlements, while echoing the peace sentiments of the good old Oslo years.
Israel’s Defense Minister and Alternate Prime Minister, Blue&White Chairman Benny Gantz on Thursday gave an extensive interview to Asharq Al-Awsat, an Arabic international newspaper headquartered in Londonâthe pioneer of the “off-shore” Arabic pressâin which he was asked about the PA’s demands for Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state: