The story of Israel’s lightning-fast inoculation of its population with the coronavirus vaccine – a far greater percentage than any other country has managed to vaccinate – is reported on here: “Israel Stuns Observers With Lightning-Fast COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout,” Algemeiner, January 1, 2021:
Over one million Israelis have now been vaccinated against the coronavirus in the first weeks of the country’s rollout, a per capita rate that is by far the fastest internationally and which has stunned observers from around the world.
More than 11% of the country’s population has now been given the COVID-19 vaccine — more than three times the next-fastest country, Bahrain, and well above the global average of 0.13%, according to data from Oxford University’s Our World in Data.
Israel’s rate of inoculation so far is thus nearly 100 times that of the average worldwide: 11% instead of 0.13% — an extraordinary feat.
Max Roser, an Oxford researcher who founded the initiative, tweeted Friday that Israel “is rapidly getting to a point where mass deaths and mass lockdowns are over.”…
Canadian Member of Parliament Peter Kent tweeted Friday, “how + why did Israel procure enough vaccine to treat more than 100K people everyday this week? Because it had to – Israel acted early, effectively and with organization driven by national security.”
The nightly news accounts I watched managed to turn a story of Israeli success into something not quite as winning. They delivered the news of Israel’s rapid vaccination of its population, but did not go into all the steps the Israeli government had taken, in planning the timetable, buying very large quantities of several different vaccines months in advance, preparing for swift distribution (which required special care to ensure that the Pfizer vaccine could be stored at -70 degrees Celsius (and the Moderna vaccine at -20 degrees Celsius), and then vaccinating people at facilities open round the clock (a simple and obvious step that, apparently, many other countries have not been doing).
But having shown Israelis being vaccinated, the news item switched quickly over to pictures of black Africans in their own countries not being inoculated, and the voiceover compared their inability to obtain any vaccines at all with the Israelis who, by having or about to have enough vaccine to cover their entire population, are somehow being blamed for the paucity of vaccine elsewhere. Why blame Israel for that lack? Why not, say, blame the U.S., or the U.K., or China, or India, which are using tens of millions more doses of vaccines than tiny Israel, which has only 0.11% — that is, one-thousandth — of the world’s population? Should we begrudge Israel its success? Should Israelis feel guilty for having bought millions of doses of both the Pfizer and the Modena vaccines early on, and planned so well for rapid distribution of the vaccine to its citizens?
Another noticeable omission in these television reports was any mention that Israel was vaccinating all of its citizens, Jews and Arabs, with equal rapidity. There was no mention that the 1,000,000th recipient in Israel of the vaccine was an Arab, Muhammad Jabarin, in the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm, whose vaccination was highlighted in Israel as part of the campaign to persuade its Arab population to get the vaccine. Why was Muhammad Jabarin not shown, being congratulated by both Prime Minister Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, and why no mention of Israel’s intense effort to get Israeli Arabs vaccinated? Why did none of the coverage on television mention that Arabs in Israel were receiving doses at the same speed as Israeli Jews, and in the same order (with essential medical workers first, then inhabitants of nursing homes and then the elderly, and so on)? Wasn’t that newsworthy, considering how many charges of Israel mistreating its Arab citizens are made at every international forum, including, most infamously, the U.N.?
Many of the stories of Israel’s vaccination of its citizens mentioned that the Israelis had not provided vaccines to the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. But the Palestinians are responsible for their own health care under the 1990s Oslo peace accords. Why was this not mentioned? Is it Israel’s fault if the Palestinians did no planning at all, in the months following the first worldwide outbreak of the pandemic last March? And why did Abbas continue refuse to have any dealings with Israel, even when Israel wanted to discuss possible cooperation on vaccinations? According to Abed Rabbo, head of the Health Ministry in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority only began approaching drug makers in the last few weeks – that is, in late December — long after other countries had made their own vaccine deals. Was that failure of the PA to act Israel’s fault? Is the colossal mismanagement and corruption endemic in the PA government, that goes far beyond its inability to deal with the pandemic, Israel’s responsibility? The financial crisis in the PA, which partly explains its inability to pay for vaccines, was brought on by the Palestinians themselves, who until December refused to accept the more than $800 million in taxes on imports that had been collected for them by Israel; the Jewish state was eager to turn over that money, but Mahmoud Abbas had refused to have any dealings with Israel – he refused to take the money until the beginning of December — in yet another grotesque example by the PA of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
How should the story of Israel’s vaccination success have been covered?
Like this:
“Israel has already managed to vaccinate more than 10% of its population, a far greater proportion than any other country, more than ten times the percentage vaccinated—0.84% — in the U.S–and nearly 100 times the percentage of 0.13% vaccinated that is the average worldwide. How did it do it? First, the Israeli government has been planning for months. It was among the first states to commit to buying millions of doses of both the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccines, almost enough to cover its entire population of 8.7 million. It agreed to pay top dollar, twice what was being paid by European countries and the U.S., for the vaccines, in order to ensure delivery.
“Second, Israel planned the roll-out of the vaccine like a military campaign. It made sure that special sub-zero freezers, able to store Pfizer vaccines at -70 degrees Celsius, were available across the land, at all hospitals and other distribution centers. Unlike in other countries, the vaccine has been given not only during the day, but round-the-clock.
“Third, Israel’s Health Ministry carried on a very effective campaign of persuading citizens to get the vaccine. Special attention was given to Israeli Arabs, who were deemed more reluctant to be inoculated than Israeli Jews. When the one-millionth person to be vaccinated turned out to be an Arab, Muhammad Jabarin, much was made of this: both the Prime Minister and the Health Minister were present when he was inoculated. It was part of the effort to persuade Israeli Arabs not to fear, but to welcome, the vaccine.
“Fourth, Israel has already bought close to the total number of doses it needs to cover its entire population. It has also said that it plans to buy more, and if it ends up with a surplus it will provide those extra doses of the vaccine to the Palestinians. And no doubt Israeli Health Ministry planners will also aid the Palestinians — who until mid-December had not bought any vaccines for themselves — in the complicated logistics involved in getting the vaccine to millions of people.”
That gives viewers a more truthful view of Israel’s admirable success, instead of singling out Israel for criticism for daring to have provided itself with an ample supply of the vaccine, while there is a lack of its availability in black Africa. Careful planning, prudent risk-taking (in buying millions of doses of vaccines even before their efficacy was fully assured), military-like skill in logistics, have all been part of Israel’s success. And once its own population — Jewish and Arab — is fully protected, Israel stands read to help the Palestinians, supplying them with whatever surplus vaccine it possesses and, no doubt, lending them a much-needed hand with logistics.
Joanne Houseman says
We in USA could learn a lot from Israel’s roll out of the vaccine.
Bad Penguin says
Small country with a very with high population density which makes it very easy to do.
gravenimage says
Funny how other small countries with high population density are not doing this…
It this were all it took, then Lebanon and the Maldives would be right up there…
Brando says
Personally I think taking the vaccine is lunacy since it seems to be just a plan to control us. The fact they CENSOR scientists who have their doubts and objections is Proof it is part of a plan.
SUN TZU
Trump follows his advice: my opinion is LIN WOOD is telling the truth,in the next few days, videos will be shown showing the CRIMES of many,and Trump will remain president.
RATCLIFFE has said Several Times it is PROVEN that CHINA has interfered in the US election,Trump can at any time Declare Martial Law.
THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL
We now know it was by ANTIFA,plus there is a VIDEO where one who entered says he was PAID( it seems he had remorse)
and there is also proof that the POLICE in charge of keeping the crowd from entering OPENED the GATE and WAVED to the crowd to ENTER.
VIDEO WHERE MAN SAYS HE WAS PAID
It is from BL, a Real News website in Spanish that says the truth,there was fraud,the video is in English with Spanish subtitles:
https://youtu.be/AcRzq4SPcUM
Phil Copson says
“THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL
We now know it was by ANTIFA,plus there is a VIDEO where one who entered says he was PAID( it seems he had remorse)
and there is also proof that the POLICE in charge of keeping the crowd from entering OPENED the GATE and WAVED to the crowd to ENTER.”
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Senator Louie Gohmert stated that he was told by Capitol security staff beforehand that they would have their own people dressed in Trump regalia amongst the protesters – so did the security staff simply open the gates to their own colleagues and others, in a bid to give the wavering Republicans such as Loeffler, the excuse not to protest Biden’s electors as they had promised, thus securing a victory for Biden, and to blacken Trump’s reputation with the intention that he would not secure the nomination in 2024 ?
Once Gohmert started to mention evidence, the interviewer hastily recollected a prior appointment and stopped the interview….
It seems very hard to believe that a group of protesters could enter the Capitol, unless those in charge of it’s security wanted it to happen.
Given the out-of-control despotism seen from the Dems, FBI, CIA, DOJ, as they tried everything to overthrow Trump’s Presidency, from faking evidence against his team – to a barrage of lies about “Russian collusion” – to impeaching the President – nothing is unbelievable any more.
Westman says
Kudos to Israel for demonstrating outstanding competency in protecting all of its citizens, Jew or Arab.
Competency is one of Israel’s great attributes. Even the US buys its defense products. https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2021/01/07/Israel-delivers-second-Iron-Dome-Defense-System-battery-to-US/1481610067859/
Does anyone think Russia or China would buy Iran’s missile defense products?
gravenimage says
Competency and decency.
Westman says
Yes, that too.
gravenimage says
Israel Inoculates Its Population at Lightning Speed
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Another reason to be impressed by Israel.
Walter Sieruk says
The God ofthe Jewish State of Israel is not responsible for the starting and the spread of the coronavirus.
Since the God of Christianity is not responsible for the start and thespread of the coronavirus
For the God of the Jews is the same God as the God of the Christians.
By terrible contrast the god of Islam , as if he really does exist is very responsible for the start and spread of coronavirus.
This in known by the reading from the Quran it’s very obvious Allah is responsible for that starting and continuing the plague of coronavirus
What a cruel and vicious god, Allah is.
For when getting down to basic Quran theology which is the Quran based worldview the one who is really to blame and is responsible for the coronavirus plague is the god of Islam ,Allah. For according to the Quran Allah had sent cruel disaster of coronavirus on human beings .
This means then the god of Islam, as if he really does is a destructive and malicious god. For the Quran teaches in Surah 57:22. “No misfortune [disaster] can happen on earth or in your souls but is recorded in a decree [Quran ] before [in eternity ] We [Allah] bring it into existence: that is easy for Allah.”
Therefore according the Islam’s “holy book,” the Quran the Islamic god, Allah, is guilty of infecting people with coronavirus What a cruel vicious, malicious god Allah must be. So Allah is than a very unloving malice –filled god.
Nevertheless, all Christians and Jews shout not lose faith and heart in the God of the Bible as vicious by sending coronavirus on people.
This is because the god of Islam is should be made clear that the God of the Bible is not really Allah the god of Islam. To explain, through the passing of time it has become widely accepted that the word “Allah” is just the Arabic word for God. This started when truth compromising Bible “translators” substituted the word Allah where the word God should have had been uses in the Arabic translation of the Bible. Furthermore, in the glossary in the book ASSASSINS! By Dr. Haha Lung it defines Allah as the “Pre-Islamic Lunar god : the god of Islam. “
Likewise, in the book entitled INSIDE ISLAM by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Reza F. Safa on pages 22, 23 it reads “In pre-Islamic times both Allah –worship and Baal-worship involved the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars which h defines them as astral religions. [Which are condemned in the Bible, Second Kings 23:5] The crescent moon, which was the symbol of moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam.”
Phil Copson says
The use of percentages to compare Israel’s vaccination-rate against other countries is meaningless and absurd – Israel has a very small population of only ten million, so obviously however many they vaccinate will represent a larger proportion of the population.
If Israel vaccinates a million people, then it makes a ten per cent vaccination-rate.
If America vaccinates a million people, then it makes a 0.3% vaccination-rate.
The real question is why other countries haven’t achieved a vaccination-rate of 100,000 people per day.
garry pollack says
the vaccine is auschwitz in a needle…sterilization and death…
gravenimage says
In that case, one in eight Israelis must have instantly dropped dead–including the Prime Minister. Odd that we’ve heard nothing about that…sarc/off Try again…
peter says
Congratulations Israel .Way to go!
peter says
One of the reasons that Israel is so successful is that they are prepared for biological warfare which was on the mind of everyone in Israel since the time of Saddam Hussein It is a tiny nation which can be easily wiped out in using a biological weapon . Perhaps it is deadlier than Nukes ! They are smart people . They think ahead and plan ahead . That is why they are not only surviving but thriving . Again another success story !