UAE-funded shipment of Russia's Sputnik V is largest single batch of vaccines to arrive in Palestinian coastal enclave; cargo arrives via border crossing with Egypt

Visitors who received the shot will be allowed in starting December 1, two weeks later than scheduled; still subject to serological test

Health Ministry director says arrivals who have received Sputnik V shots will need to take a serology test to confirm antibodies

Russians to stay away from work next week as country tries to stem infections; only about one-third of population is vaccinated amid high levels of skepticism, misinformation

But government says no entry for travelers coming from ‘red’ countries or from places seeing outbreak of new AY4.2 strain; Russian vaccine not okayed, for now

Move said to be opposed by health officials, but pushed by political leadership ahead of meeting between Bennett and Putin; visitors would still need to undergo antibody screening

Hundreds of accounts on platform and on Instagram traced back to Fazze, a marketing company working for an unknown client; one post claimed shots turn one into a chimpanzee

But inoculation is still largely a privilege of high-income countries, which are home to 16% of world's population but have given 47% of doses

Moscow wants travelers who received its homemade inoculation to skip quarantine when visiting, but Israel currently doesn't accept any vaccine done abroad, demanding antibody test

Shipment was arranged by exiled Fatah chief Mohammad Dahlan, whose movement will offer 20,000 of the vaccines to the Palestinian Authority