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Illustrative: A baby receives a routine vaccine. (naumoid; iStock by Getty Images)
November 25, 2025, 4:57 pm
Amid measles outbreak, study finds skepticism of routine vaccines soared during COVID
Bar-Ilan researcher finds that 6.6% of parents who vaccinated an older child before the pandemic chose not to vaccinate a younger child; ‘enough to trigger’ current outbreak
By Diana Bletter
A notice warning of measles is seen on a door in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, July 31, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 17, 2025, 3:45 pm
After 2 deaths, infectious disease doctor urges community leaders to back measles vaccines
Measles outbreak kills 2 unvaccinated children, with 526 confirmed cases from the Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh areas; 19 children still hospitalized, all of them under age of 6
By Diana Bletter
A health worker marks the finger of a child who received a vaccination for polio in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on September 4, 2024 amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and terror group Hamas. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
November 6, 2024, 9:59 pm
Over 1 million Gazans vaccinated in fresh polio campaign, IDF says
Effort to distribute vaccines across Strip wraps up after second drive in three months, prompted by unvaccinated 10-month-old who was partially paralyzed by disease in August
By Jeremy Sharon
A health worker marks the finger of a child who received a vaccination for polio in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on September 4, 2024 amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and terror group Hamas. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
October 5, 2024, 6:14 am
WHO hopes to start 2nd round of Gaza polio vaccination on October 14
After successful first round, global body is now coordinating with Israel on the next dose to prevent spread of the disease
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A Palestinian medic administers polio vaccines to children at the al-Daraj neighborhood clinic in Gaza City on September 10, 2024. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
September 16, 2024, 4:59 pm
UNRWA chief says Gaza polio vaccine drive has reached 90% of children
Philippe Lazzarini says ‘humanitarian pauses’ were respected and the plan is to begin rolling out the second doses at the end of the month
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A Palestinian medic unpacks polio vaccines during an inoculation drive at the al-Daraj neighborhood clinic in Gaza City on September 10, 2024. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
September 12, 2024, 5:07 pm
WHO ‘confident’ over 90% of children in Gaza received first polio vaccine dose
UN agency says at least 552,451 children under age 10 have been reached by the campaign, and humanitarian pauses were ‘respected’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A Palestinian medic administers polio vaccines to children at the al-Daraj neighborhood clinic in Gaza City on September 10, 2024. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
September 10, 2024, 4:49 pm
Polio vaccinations begin in northern Gaza despite operational challenges
Health and aid officials say access restrictions, evacuation orders, fuel shortages hampering operation to vaccinate some 200,000 children
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A child receives a vaccination for polio in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on September 4, 2024. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
September 5, 2024, 3:48 am
WHO hails success of polio 1st phase vaccination campaign in Gaza
Aided by localized ‘humanitarian pauses’ in fighting, effort aims to vaccinate more than 640,000 children in the Strip
By AFP
A health worker administers the polio vaccine to a Palestinian child in Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip on September 1, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
September 3, 2024, 2:49 pm
Polio vaccination targets surpassed for Gaza children, WHO says
Noting success of coordinated humanitarian pauses in fighting to enable inoculation, official reports 161,000 kids under 10 treated in first 2 days of campaign in center of Strip
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a hospital in Khan Younis, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
August 31, 2024, 6:49 pm
Polio vaccination campaign begins in Gaza, health officials say
After first case of disease in enclave in 25 years found in 10-month-old boy, Israel agreed to temporary pauses in fighting to allow inoculation of some 640,000 children
By AFP
A Palestinian child receives a pentavalent shot, which protects against five diseases, in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah, January 2, 2024, after the vaccines were delivered to the Strip in an international aid shipment. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
August 22, 2024, 4:30 pm
UN agencies wage uphill battle for vaccination after Gaza baby found to have polio
Supplies arrive in Tel Aviv as 2,700 aid workers gear up to immunize 640,000 children; COGAT vows ‘joint effort’ with international community
By AFP and ToI Staff
Palestinians walk on the rubble of destroyed buildings, between two pools of stagnant water in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 19, 2024 (Bashar Taleb / AFP)
August 16, 2024, 6:43 pm
Gaza records first polio case in 25 years as UN seeks ceasefire to vaccinate kids
Infant from Strip confirmed to have disease hours after World Health Organization and UNICEF announce plans to inoculate 640,000 children during two week-long truces
By AFP
Illustrative: A child receives the polio vaccine at the Health Ministry office in Beersheba on August 5, 2013. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)
March 7, 2022, 11:20 am
First new polio case in decades diagnosed in Israel
Unvaccinated 4-year-old in Jerusalem tests positive for mutated version of disease; parents urged to get their children’s inoculations up-to-date
By Amy Spiro
An Israeli child receives his second shot of the COVID-19 vaccine at Clalit vaccine center for children in Kfar Saba, December 13, 2021. (Flash90)
January 20, 2022, 4:55 pm
Israel to begin giving COVID boosters to at-risk kids aged 5-11
Those with higher potential for serious illness will receive a third dose of Pfizer’s version of the vaccine designed for children
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Students receive COVID-19 vaccine injections, at Amal high school in the southern city of Beersheba, March 17, 2021. (Flash90)
December 23, 2021, 4:30 pm
Parent threatens nurse at Beersheba school for administering COVID vaccines
Education minister issues condemnation after parent shouts ‘murderers’ at Health Ministry employee and threatens to dox her
By ToI Staff
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