Sharon Alroy-Preis, the Health Ministry’s head of public health services, says she does not favor a vaccine mandate for all Israelis.
“We in the Health Ministry must do all we can to make the vaccines accessible, to explain, to show the statistics,” she tells Ynet. “I don’t think we need to require vaccines, but I imagine that over time we will have to weigh different directions. I don’t think we need to get to that situation.”
Alroy-Preis also says that Israel is not currently in an “emergency situation” over the COVID Omicron variant.
“I don’t think we’re in an emergency situation. We’re in a worrying situation and we’re taking a series of actions as quickly as possible so that we don’t reach an emergency situation.”
Earlier today, coronavirus czar Salman Zarka said that Israel should weigh introducing a national vaccine mandate compelling all citizens to get themselves inoculated against the coronavirus, a notion that mirrors legislation under consideration in several European countries.
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