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With 80 percent of all adults vaccinated, Israel is returning to normal. But what about those who don’t want to get vaccinated?
Israel continues vaccination at an enormous rate. Now, more than 60 percent of the population is fully vaccinated, which includes about 80 percent of all adults.
Until vaccines are ready for children, there are no signs that the virus is completely gone. But all the critical numbers for the coronavirus have fallen like a stone. Deaths, serious illnesses and infections have been drastically reduced.
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Many will not be vaccinated
While the rest of us wait for vaccines, Israel has entered the next phase of management. Anyone who has been vaccinated or recovered from the coronavirus can get a “Green Pass”, a kind of vaccination card. It provides access, for example, to restaurants, swimming pools, beaches and, in short, it gives people most of the freedom.
But what about those who do not want or cannot get vaccinated?
A makeup artist says that after the partnership recently began to reopen, he was eager to get started. But the employer had said no.
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– I am not allowed to work because I have not been vaccinated. There is discrimination and it is not right, makeup artist Artyom Kavnatsky tells the AP news agency.
This issue is now high on Israel’s agenda. Employers and schools are considering how to treat those who have not been vaccinated. Airlines are considering requiring recent negative coronal test or vaccine passes.
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One case has already ended up in the judicial system. Those who do not want to be vaccinated claim that it is a violation of their human rights to deny them a job. Others believe that requirements must be established to prevent infections and deaths.
Labor dispute
The Israeli authorities’ green pass scheme has clearly been a motivational scheme for people to get vaccinated. It is not just an infection control measure in and of itself.
Requirements for coronary vaccination have already been introduced for health system employees. People who do not want to be vaccinated will be transferred to other jobs, where they do not come into contact with people who belong to high-risk groups.
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At Tel Aviv University, they have found a balance. Students who have been vaccinated can attend conferences and classes. Those who have not been vaccinated should continue to follow the teaching digitally.
Resistance to vaccines appears to be increasing. In Israel, a separate group has appeared on Facebook for people who do not want to get vaccinated. At the time of writing this report, it has around 15,000 members. According to makeup artist Kavnatsky, it is not the efficacy of the vaccine or conspiracies that is at stake. The point is that you don’t want to be ordered to put a syringe in your body.
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Under Israeli labor law, a nursery school could deny a nursery attendant to work as long as he or she was not vaccinated or tested regularly.
At the moment, most organizations and authorities believe that it is not relevant to force people to be vaccinated.
The leader of the Israeli Medical Association, Nadav Davidovitch, believes that knowledge and conviction are needed, not coercion. He tells the news agency that 90 percent of Israeli recruits in the army were vaccinated after speaking to experts.
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