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To help make that happen, controversial new legislation was passed Wednesday that permits the health ministry to provide municipalities with the names, addresses and contact information of residents who have not been vaccinated. The law allows
city workers to use the information to contact those people and try to convince them to do so. The measure also grants the education and welfare ministries access to that information.
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Haim Katz, a member of Netanyahu’s Likud Party, said in parliament that the law was justified given the stakes. “I’ve been asked, ‘What about people’s privacy?’” Katz said. “Is privacy more important than life itself?”
By Colette Davidson, Dina Kraft, Sara Miller Llana,
By Hidayatullah Noorzai, Scott Peterson, and Ann Scott Tyson
A South African student waits out her pregnancy, studying remotely from a small rented room in pandemic isolation; an Afghan boxer gets deported from Iran in a pandemic sweep, ending his hope of settling in the West; a French entrepreneur sees his business moment stalled by pandemic shutdowns. They are three of twelve 21-year-olds the Monitor closely followed during the last three months of 2020 to offer a glimpse of how a generation is coping, in real time, with a crisis likely to define it for decades to come.
with writing and reporting from Colette Davidson, Dina Kraft, Sara Miller Llana, Hidayatullah Noorzai, Scott Peterson, and Ann Scott Tyson
A South African student waits out her pregnancy, studying remotely from a small rented room in pandemic isolation; an Afghan boxer gets deported from Iran in a pandemic sweep, ending his hope of settling in the West; a French entrepreneur sees his business moment stalled by pandemic shutdowns. They are three of twelve 21-year-olds the Monitor closely followed during the last three months of 2020 to offer a glimpse of how a generation is coping, in real time, with a crisis likely to define it for decades to come.Â