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Battling COVID: Weekly Update

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

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A Hadassah Medical Center staff member receives the second round of the COVID-19 vaccine in Jerusalem, January 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

5.2 million Israelis to be fully vaccinated by late March – Health Ministry plan

Every week will see arrival of hundreds of thousands of Pfizer vaccines, allowing for 1.3 million to receive 1st dose and 1.8 million to receive 2nd dose in January

Man receives a COVID-19 vaccine, at a Meuhedet vaccination center in Jerusalem, on January 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel to start vaccinating citizens aged 55+ Tuesday as infection rate steadies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein (C) attend a ceremony for the arrival of a plane carrying a shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech anti-coronavirus vaccine, at Ben Gurion Airport near the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on January 10, 2021. (Motti Millrod/Pool/AFP)

Israel said on course to receive 400K-700K vaccines per week from Pfizer

A senior citizen receives his second Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the Maccabi Health Services drive-in vaccination center, in the northern coastal city of Haifa, on January 11, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Israel said to be paying average of $47 per person for Pfizer, Moderna vaccines

By Stuart Winer

Country to spend NIS 1 billion on purchasing units for its mass inoculation drive, roughly the cost of two days of lockdown, report says

An Israeli man receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Jerusalem, on January 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Experts urge dose of transparency as medical data traded to Pfizer for vaccines

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Wednesday, January 6, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool via AP)

Unveiling deal, Netanyahu promises enough vaccines to beat COVID by end of March

Members of the gorilla troop at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, California are seen in their habitat on January 10, 2021 (Ken Bohn/San Diego Zoo Safari Park via AP)

In 1st known primate case, gorillas test positive for virus at San Diego Zoo

By JULIE WATSON

8 gorillas believed to have virus and several have been coughing; appears infection came from member of zoo’s team

A health care worker administers a COVID-19 vaccination at the new Alamodome COVID-19 vaccine site, Jan. 11, 2021, in San Antonio, Texas (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

WHO says global COVID-19 herd immunity unlikely in 2021 despite vaccines

By Maria Cheng and Jamey Keaten

A staff member and a resident at the ADI Jerusalem facility for individuals with disabilities (courtesy of ADI Jerusalem)

100 residents, 0 cases: How Jerusalem’s largest home for disabled dodged COVID

By Nathan Jeffay

Small business owners protest the governement's handling of the Coronavirus epidemic, in Tel Aviv, on January 05, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Op-ed

Vaccine champ, contagion chump — the two sides of Israel’s battle against COVID

The world-beating success of our vaccination drive — overseen by professionals, with no partisan contours — contrasts starkly with the politicized effort to stop the virus spread

An Israeli woman receives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a drive in vaccination center in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, Jan. 7, 2021 (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Top health official: In deal with Pfizer, Israel to share public data only

An Israeli health care professional holds a COVID-19 test sample in a bag at a testing center in Jerusalem during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Jan. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Record high of nearly 10,000 daily cases as total infections surge past 500,000

As British strain spreads, Health Ministry said considering slashing the amount of contact time with a confirmed carrier is required to send an individual into isolation

A new patient arriving at the coronavirus ward of the Ziv Medical Center in the northern city of Safed, on January 7, 2020. (Cohen/Flash90)

Serious COVID-19 cases pass 1,000 for 1st time since start of pandemic

Finance Minister Israel Katz holds a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on July 1, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Israel sees $50.4 billion budget deficit in 2020 — largest in history

A family walks in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on December 27, 2020. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP)

Inside story

As UK virus variant spreads, the kids will be all right, but you might not be

Schools closing as highly contagious strain more likely to spread among children, who will then pass it to adults — but there’s no evidence it will make kids any sicker

A relatively empty coronavirus vaccine dispenser in Beit Hanina, East Jerusalem, January 5, 2021 (Aaron Boxerman/The Times of Israel)

ToI investigates

With distrust rampant, East Jerusalem Palestinians shirk COVID vaccine

Only 20% of Palestinian residents of the city aged 60 and over have been immunized, compared to 60% of Jews; health providers lament spread of conspiracies and fake news

Palestinian workers enter Israel through the Meitar checkpoint near Hebron in the West Bank, May 5, 2020. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Report: Health officials warn against withholding vaccines from Palestinians

Palestinians wearing face mask attend a prayer at a mosque in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on January 10, 2021. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90

Palestinians hope for vaccines by March, knock Israel for not providing them

By Aaron Boxerman

More Headlines

In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves before he addresses the nation in a televised speech in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. in Tehran, Iran. Khamenei called to ban the import of American and British vaccines, claiming they are not to be trusted. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

‘I don’t trust them’: Iran supreme leader bans COVID vaccines from US, Britain

By Nasser Karimi

People in Tel Aviv, some wearing protective face masks, on January 6, 2021 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

‘Twindemic’ fears fizzle with zero flu cases recorded nationwide

By Nathan Jeffay

Prison guards wearing protective clothing as a preventive measure against the coronavirus, seen as they transport a prisoner suspected of having the coronavirus at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on March 30, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Gantz calls for prisoners to be vaccinated, calling ban illegal and unhelpful

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

(RomoloTavani/iStock/Getty Images)

Amid virus crisis, lockdowns, Jewish Israelis saw drop in divorce rate in 2020

A man adjusts images of Iancu Tucarman, during his funeral, at a Jewish cemetery in Bucharest, Romania, January 11, 2021. (AP/ Vadim Ghirda)

One of last remaining Holocaust survivors in Romania succumbs to COVID-19 at 98

By VADIM GHIRDA

A demonstrator dressed in a costume of prisoner holds a banner reading the word 'Untermensch' (sub-human) referring to a Nazi term attends the protest against COVID-19 government measures on January 10, 2021, in the old Town Square in Prague. (Michal Cizek / AFP)

Czech churches pan ‘tasteless’ use of yellow Star of David at anti-vax protest

By AFP

Demonstrators gather during a protest against the government restriction measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, in Prague, Czech Republic, January 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Amid virus protests, Czechs ask Israel for assistance on vaccine rollout

By AFP

Young Haredi residents of Ashdod clash with police who were dispatched to shutter a yeshiva in the town that was operating in violation of the government lockdown on January 11, 2020. (Flash90)

Haredim clash with police at Ashdod yeshiva open in violation of lockdown

Falafel store owner Ilan Atlan speaks to reporters outside Beilinson Hospital on January 8, 2020. (Screen capture/Ynet)

Falafel shop owner says he was tased, beaten by cops who came to fine him

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox men during a ceremony in Meron, near Safed, on December 7, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Cover upHaredi newspaper photoshops masks onto picture of rabbis meeting

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