Jabarin Muhammad is the 1,000,000th Israeli to Receive the COVID-19 Vaccine

Jerusalem, 3 January, 2021 (TPS) -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein visited on Friday the anti-Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination facility in the Arab city of Umm Al-Fahm and met the 1,000,000^th person in Israel to be vaccinated.

Jabarin Muhammad, 66, an Arab resident of Umm Al-Fahm, was the 1,000,000^th Israeli to be vaccinated.

Israel launched Operation “Lend a Shoulder” to vaccinate the population against COVID-19 two weeks ago

“What excitement, Jabarin is the 1,000,000^th person in the State of Israel to be vaccinated. We are breaking all of the records,” stated Netanyahu.

“We are ahead of the entire world. We are moving forward at great speed to vaccinate the entire population,” he added.

“As soon as we reach a critical mass of people who are vaccinated, we will be able to open commerce, the stores and the restaurants. We will be able to fly abroad, to make deals and travel in all the countries that we have made peace with, peace that has opened the world and is also changing our history, as Israeli society and as a country,” he said.

Edelstein further noted that “now, after the 1,000,000^th person to be vaccinated is here with us, it is possible to say with certainty that Israel, with God’s help, will be the first country in the world to be vaccinated. This is a great achievement. Within a few months, we will be able to say: ‘Hasta la vista’ to the Coronavirus and return to normality.

He emphasized that “we are all in this together. There is no difference between Jews and Arabs, religious and secular. As long as we are unsuccessful in reaching great numbers of vaccinated people in every place, we will be unable to go out to all of the places that are so important to us all.”