“No other country has been as efficient about inoculating its population,” Rahav said. Once the vaccines arrived, responsibility for their distribution and administration was handed to Israel’s four venerable and experienced health-management organizations. We have to be extreme in everything.”Ī small, prosperous country with a long-established universal health-care system, Israel has administered over 5 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine in about six weeks. When asked about the seemingly contradictory puzzle, Galia Rahav, the head of the infectious-disease unit at Tel Aviv’s Sheba Medical Center, sighed, chuckled, and said: “This is Israel. On Thursday, the death toll in Israel crossed 5,000. While Israel races ahead on putting shots in arms, the country is also seeing a spike in cases, with almost 74 out of every 100,000 Israelis testing positive for the virus, compared to about 40 out of every 100,000 Americans. By comparison, the United States has vaccinated about 10 percent of its population. Since then, Israel has given at least one jab to more than half its population, earning the title of most vaccinated country on Earth. Days later he became the first person in the country to be vaccinated, live on television, followed by millions of Israelis. On December 9, a big bright yellow DHL jet loaded with Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine landed in Israel, where it was welcomed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a dramatic photo op at Ben Gurion airport. An elderly woman receives a booster shot of her vaccination against the coronavirus disease at an assisted living facility, in Netanya, Israel.
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