Israel is not accustomed to lagging behind on any of its injection campaigns, but even the carrot-and-stick method of pushing the COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5 to 11 appears not to be working as well as the government had hoped.
Twice this week, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett repeated his latest message: “Vaccines protect us from serious illness – and quarantine – and the public understands that.”
Let me repeat that: “…and quarantine.” Wink, wink.