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Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 1:01 pm | ה טבת תשפ א
Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 1:01 pm | ה טבת תשפ א
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gives his jacket to his son Avner before receiving a COVID-19 vaccine on Motzei Shabbos. The PM’s personal physician Dr. Tzvi Berkowitz, who administered the shot, is seen at left. (REUTERS/Amir Cohen/Pool)
All went according to plan at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s historic anti-Covid inoculation, except for one detail:
The nurse who had prepared the shot and was about to administer it was replaced at the last moment by Netanyahu’s personal physician, Dr. Tzvi Berkovitz, on Motzei Shabbos.
Shoshi Gomel told Channel 12 news that she was “excited to be chosen help bring Israel into a new era without the coronavirus,” but then the syringe was taken from her hands after she had filled it with the vaccine.
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After two court petitions by the environmental group Home Guardians and the intervention of the Interior Ministry’s regional director, the Carmel Beach Regional Authority in northern Israel announces that it will return a $480,000 donation received from the natural gas company Energean Israel.
Energean Israel, a subsidiary of the Greek Energean, owns the franchise to the Karish and Tanin natural gas fields off the Mediterranean coast and is exploring for additional oil and gas in the area. Karish and Tanin are to set to start commercial production next year.
The coastal authority is responsible for monitoring rogue emissions from offshore natural gas production facilities and was initially unwilling to accept the idea that taking a donation from one of the gas companies could potentially cause it a conflict of interest.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) smiles before receiving a coronavirus vaccine, from his personal physician Dr. Tzvi Berkovitz, at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan on December 19, 2020. At center in background (in blue scrubs) is nurse Shoshi Gomel (Amir Cohen/Pool/AFP)
The Sheba Medical Center nurse who was set to give Israel’s first shot of the coronavirus vaccine to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night said Sunday that it was administered in contradiction to hospital protocols.
Shoshi Gomel, who was switched at the last minute by Netanyahu‘s personal physician Tzvi Herman Berkovitz, told Channel 12 news that she was “excited to be chosen to help bring Israel into a new era without the coronavirus,” but had the syringe taken from her hands after she had filled it with the vaccine dose.
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Some 80,000 Israelis have so far signed up with health providers to receive the coronavirus vaccine, Channel 13 news reports.
After vaccines were made available to health care workers today, citizens over the age of 60 can begin getting shots tomorrow.
The Health Ministry is hoping to be able to administer up to 60,000 vaccines a day, when shots are opened to the general public.
Channel 13, however, says that health providers are worried that they will not receive enough vaccines fast enough. I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
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