Thread by @IsraeliPM

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Clalit Health Services vaccination facility in Tira:
"We brought millions of vaccines here, and we brought them to everyone: Jews and Arabs, religious and secular. Everyone can – and needs to – be vaccinated."

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This will give us the possibility to reopen commerce, cafes & restaurants. Businesspeople will be able to fly to make deals in Dubai; we now have a peace agreement. We will be able to hold safe weddings. It is possible to emerge from this. Be vaccinated and get life back on track

This is what needs to be done.

I thank Clalit Healthcare Services and the other HMOs which are doing fantastic work. I brought the vaccines and you are giving them. The whole world is amazed at Israel. They are writing that Israel is a wonder. We will emerge from this together.

PM Netanyahu: "My goal is to reach 5.5 million vaccinated people. This is enough to be done with this. There will also be enough for 9 million citizens and the truth is that there will be more. I congratulate you for coming to be vaccinated and hope that many more will come."

There is responsibility and there is a lack of responsibility. The responsibility is to bring the vaccines and distribute them. The lack of responsibility is – at the same time – to allow the disease to run amok.

I regret that for populistic reasons, we were prevented from enacting the small and tightened lockdown that we wanted and which would save hundreds of people and families in the State of Israel.

We wanted a small and tightened lockdown and a rapid opening of the economy together with lightning quick vaccinations. I regret this has not happened. I would like to take this opportunity and say that we will continue to bring vaccines and I call on the public to be vaccinated