Hadassah CEO Prof. Zeev Rothstein addressed Defense Minister Bnei Gantz: "The experimenters are being discriminated against, as one of them I feel deprived and ostracized."
Prof. Rothstein receives the Israeli vaccine
Photo:
Oren Ben Hakon (Archive)
Hadassah Director General Prof. Zeev Rothstein today (Wednesday) addressed Defense Minister Bnei Gantz and demanded that he allow a green label to be given to about 1,000 participants in the Israeli Institute of Biology's experiment. The discrimination of the experimenters with the Israeli vaccine, who are not entitled to a green label, was exposed in "Israel Today".
Prof. Rothstein himself volunteered as a vaccine experimenter.
He said, "Even today, even before the planned pulse for next week, the experimenters (including me) are disadvantaged, with some of the services that will be opened to green passport holders not including the experimental volunteers of the Israeli vaccine.
"Precisely those who have taken a step forward and given their bodies to the development of science and Israeli research, find themselves ostracized without the ability to reach gyms, cultural activities, restaurants and receive an exemption from isolation for returnees from abroad.
"I address you first and foremost as a proud Israeli, who has contributed and continues to contribute to the country, which at the moment feels deprived and ostracized in a way that shames my country," he noted.
"I do not want to elaborate on the feeling I may have next week when I accompany my wife to the concert, and I will have to stay outside, and / or I will return with her from abroad and I will navigate to the motel and she will be exempt from isolation," Lagantz wrote.
Prof. Rothstein announces that he will be vaccinated with the Israeli vaccine // Archive photo: Hadassah spokeswoman
The Ministry of Health has previously stated that the issue will be discussed by the Corona Vaccine Advisory Committee, but a decision has not yet been published.