Israel s virus vaccination campaign could be one big clinical trial for Pfizer
Opinion: While Israel s nationwide vaccination campaign is a monumental success, the government s willingness to provide U.S. drugmaker with personal data on Israelis violates its obligation toward the public
Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler |
Published: 01.14.21 , 23:30
In our youth, every Israeli child had a small, private yellow notebook in which the details of every vaccine they ever received were meticulously written down. With time, these yellow notebooks were digitized and are now being kept on a secure server belonging to the Health Ministry.
The ministry, in collaboration with Israel’s hospitals and HMOs, have all sorts of patient details in their disposal, all of which are kept in various databases under a digitized lock and key.
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With just a few weeks until the filing deadline to run in Israel’s national election on March 23, many parties began to fill out their electoral slates with both familiar and fresh faces.
Going it alone: Former Defense Minister Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon broke off from Yesh Atid on Sunday evening, announcing that his Telem Party would run independently for the first time. “The reign of Netanyahu is over,” he declared. Those joining him include former Blue and White Science Minister Izhar Shay, Hagai Levine, the former head of the Israeli doctors union, and anti-Netanyahu protest leader Gonen Ben-Yitzhak. Ya’alon also introduced and then quickly rescinded the candidacy of attorney Ayman Aburiya, after it emerged that he was facing a bribery indictment. Army Radio’s political correspondent Michael Hauser-Tov called Ya’alon’s lineup an “ideological salad… puzzling even today when ideology seems to barely have any effect on the ballot box.”
Melisron plans huge expansion for Ramat Aviv Mall
The grandiose plan includes a new commercial floor and four towers for hotels, offices and apartments for rent.
Israeli income producing real estate company Melisron Ltd. (TASE: MLSR) is promoting a grandiose plan to triple the size of the Ramat Aviv Mall and the surrounding complex in North Tel Aviv, The Tel Aviv Municipality has confirmed. The project to expand the Ramat Aviv Mall area includes adding a third floor for stores in the mall itself and building four more high-rise towers.
According to the initial details, the first tower, which will have 15-floors for a hotel, will be built facing Einstein Street. Another 15-floor tower facing Brazil Street will be for residential apartments for sale and rent, while two 32-floor high-rises facing Brodetsky Street, will be built on the current car park outside of the mall. The plan also includes deepening the underground car park on Brazil Street with four more floors. The project is
Nathan Jeffay is The Times of Israel s health and science correspondent
A nurse prepares a vaccine at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, December 31, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Millions worldwide prayed for widespread vaccination by Christmas. Israel, where the day largely goes unmarked, got the closest.
Nurses are giving shots at turbo speed, and Israel tops the global table for the proportion of the population that is vaccinated, and is fourth in total shots given. In less than two weeks, nearly 800,000 people have received their first of two shots, which represents more than 9 percent of the population.
This is almost three times the next most needle-happy nation, Bahrain, and several times the population share of that in Britain, which started giving shots two weeks before Israel.
Huge vaccination center to open in Tel Aviv
Itay Blumenthal |
Published: 12.30.20 , 16:40
Tel Aviv s Ichilov Medical Center announced Wednesday that a huge vaccination center will be opened to the public this Monday in Rabin Square.
The center, which will open in collaboration with the Tel Aviv Municipality, will be operated by medical teams in 20 separate immunization stations. The city s residents aged 60 and over will first be vaccinated.
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