Israeli vaccine results show effectiveness, but cases are rising VOX Israel has vaccinated the highest percentage of its citizens of any country in the world, and the results thus far have been encouraging. Just 63 of the 428,000 Israelis who have received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine contracted the coronavirus one week post-inoculation. [The New York Times / Isabel Kershner] Of those that did get sick, none were hospitalized or had a fever over 101 degrees Fahrenheit, indicating the vaccine may also make Covid-19 cases less severe — though the sample size is small. [The Times of Israel / Nathan Jeffay] Despite the mass vaccination drive, Israel is still hovering at about 7,000 cases per day, a decrease from the 9,000 the country was seeing last week. Officials have imposed a third lockdown and will shut down its only international airport. [The Wall Street Journal / Felicia Schwartz and Dov Lieber] Experts believe mutations in the virus are to blame for continued high case counts. [The Jerusalem Post / Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman] While Israel’s vaccination campaign has been highly successful, they have enforced vaccine inequity along the border wall with the Palestinian Authority. Israel says it is not responsible for vaccinating Palestinians who live in the West Bank and Gaza. [The Times of Israel / Jacob Magid] United Nations experts have called Israel’s policy “unacceptable”, with Palestinians and allies abroad decrying the disparities the country’s health ministers are enforcing. [CNN / Sam Kiley]