Life After the Vaccine in Israel

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🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Just a few months ago, Israel was in dire shape when it came to the coronavirus. It had among the highest daily infection and death rates in the world. Now, Israel has outpaced much of the world in vaccinating its population and hospitalizations have fallen dramatically. Today, how it is managing the return to normality and the moral and ethical questions that its decisions have raised.

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0:00.0	So I'm inside the stadium now and the way it's set up is the 500 people in the audience
0:11.3	are just filling the rows in one small section of the arena.
0:17.5	Last week in Tel Aviv I had the chance to do something that I haven't done in well over
0:23.1	a year.
0:24.1	So the singer is a wonderful songstress called Dicla.
0:28.7	I went to a concert.
0:31.4	Well we're just a few minutes away now from the concert beginning and you can really see
0:35.7	the excitement people are taking selfies, groups of friends.
0:40.6	It's really a feeling of release and a taste of life as we used to know it.
0:47.4	There was only one reason why I could be there along with the other 500 people and that
0:54.1	was because...
0:55.1	Hey finally the lights of dims we were all fully vaccinated.
1:05.7	From the New York Times I'm Michael Babaro.
1:08.6	This is the Daily.
1:12.9	Today.
1:13.9	It's really happening I'm at a concert.
1:23.3	Israel has become a global leader in vaccinations so far fully inoculating nearly half its population.
1:32.5	In the process it is quickly restoring a kind of normalcy that is defined in large part
1:39.3	by who it excludes.
1:42.9	I spoke with my colleague Isabel Kirschner in Jerusalem.
1:52.9	It's Monday, March 15th.
2:05.8	Isabel you are now living in what seems like an entirely different pandemic planet than
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