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TEL AVIV – Yesterday Israel entered the third confinement. They say it will be the last, after the start of the hectic vaccination campaign, with the stated goal of celebrating Easter without restrictions at the end of March. The prime minister had given the go-ahead live on television. Benjamin Netanyahu Eight days ago, and since then, the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine was administered to another 300,000 Israelis, bringing the country to the top of the world ranking for the number of people vaccinated.
The response of the population was immediate and more enthusiastic than expected: the switchboards of the four health insurance funds were broken into, with the appointment calendar extending until March, people accepting appointments even in the city for hours of travel from home, lines that form from dawn to be the first to receive the long-awaited injection. At the moment, only citizens over 60 years old, people with previous illnesses and medical personnel can access the vaccine, in two weeks the vaccine will be extended to other categories. But there are those who have discovered, as a group of young people said, that if you arrive towards the end of the surgery shift, you can receive the advanced doses, which cannot be refrozen. Health insurance companies have recruited famous people to invite people out on dates. The bare shoulder and injection photo is the new fashion.
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Since yesterday, hospitals have also participated in the operation to lighten the burden of health insurance funds. Some centers have begun to operate without interruption, evenings and Saturdays included, with the imprimatur given by the rabbis who invited the faithful to get vaccinated “without wasting time, to avoid dangers for themselves and for others.” The mayor of Jerusalem Moses Leon yesterday he went, together with local imams, to one of the clinics in Sheikh Jarrah, the eastern district of the city, to raise awareness among the population who, according to the data so far, are the most reluctant to get vaccinated.
Netanyahu upped the ante by announcing that there will be 150,000 daily vaccinations by the end of this week (80,000 were administered yesterday) and that the goal is to vaccinate half the country, which has 9 million people, in two months. With the fourth election in less than two years set for March 23, the current prime minister has made the vaccine operation and promise that this will be the last lockdown on his workhorse. The electoral campaign will take place between the exit of the pandemic and, on the opposition front, both from the left and the right, the exit of the longest serving prime minister in the country’s history.
