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Israel is considering massively expanding its vaccination program, with the possibility it will expand the mandate of the Green Passport system beyond the initial six-month period, with those participating receiving the COVID vaccine every six months. Speaking with GaleiTzahal’s Efi Triger in aninterview released Monday morning, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said it may be necessary for Israelis to get vaccinated twice this year, adding that Israel is in talks with pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Moderna for additional mass purchases of COVID vaccines.
“Within one year, we may need to get vaccinated twice, so we’re in talks with Pfizer and Moderna for the establishment of a vaccine factory in Israel,” said Netanyahu.
“We’re negotiating with Pfizer and Moderna to sign an agreement to purchase vaccines which are also suitable against the new mutations. If we need to vaccinate every citizen in Israel twice a year, it will require a total of 36 million [...]
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Who are Arutz Sheva?Arutz Sheva (also known as Israel National News) is an Israeli media network that provides 24-hour news updates, television broadcasts, radio, and Jewish content across Hebrew, English, and Russian platforms.
Who are moderna?Moderna, Inc. is an American pharmaceutical and biotechnology company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is globally recognized for pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines. The company's name is a portmanteau of the words "modified" and "RNA" (while also spelling out "modern").
What is Vaccine?A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, destroy it, and to further recognize and destroy any of the microorganisms associated with that agent that it may encounter in the future. The administration of vaccines is called vaccination. Vaccination is the most effective method of preventing infectious diseases; widespread immunity due to vaccination is largely responsible for the worldwide eradication of smallpox and the restriction of diseases such as polio, measles, and tetanus from much of the world.
Where is Israel?Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East. Located on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea. It has land borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan on the east, the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively, and Egypt to the southwest.
