Health and science correspondent Nathan Jeffay makes sense of current coronavirus stats; Paralympics reporter Amy Spiro guides us on which Israeli athletes to watch in Tokyo Games

In TV interviews, nurses at Beilinson hospital express frustration that people still refusing vaccination, even though it's shown to limit most serious COVID cases

Health authorities have launched a concentrated vaccination effort in the city, focusing on service providers and health professionals, in preparation for the pilgrimage

Lazar Berman explains why Israel is up in arms after an alleged Iranian attack on an oil tanker; health reporter Nathan Jeffay lists pros and cons of Israel's 3rd dose campaign

US president says scientists reviewing inoculation for younger children, may approve it around beginning of school year

Immunocompromised Israelis will soon be able to receive a third booster dose; 6 people in Israel have died of COVID in the past week

'You can’t force people to be part of the human experiment,' Georgia Republican says, weeks after apologizing for using Nazi analogies

But Ran Balicer, chair of Israel's national expert panel on COVID-19, stresses it is 'too early to precisely assess vaccine effectiveness against the variant'

‘If we weren’t so well-vaccinated, lockdown would be looming,' says top government adviser; doctors breathe sigh of relief, but worries linger about 'weak spot' in COVID fight

With inoculation rates so high -- 96% for HPV -- that they exceed those of Jewish Israelis, community is a rarity among disadvantaged populations