At the top of the risk group: Saleh Zidane from Beit Jann is the oldest vaccinated person in all Clalit health insurance branches • Her 75-year-old son: "She still calls me a child
Saleh Zidane from Beit Jann
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Spokeswoman for Clalit Health Fund
Nearly 3 million citizens have already been vaccinated in Corona, but the vaccinated woman who arrived at the Clalit Health Fund branch in Maalot yesterday managed to excite the medical staff in particular.
After Salah Zidane from Beit Jann entered the gates of the HMO accompanied by her son, the crews were amazed to discover her advanced age: no less than 109 years.
Nurse Roida Fares, who is in charge of the Maalot HMO's vaccination complex, was surprised not only by her impressive age but also by her clarity.
"She answered the medical question herself herself and asked to receive the vaccine with her right hand this time because the previous time she had received the vaccine with her left hand," Fares said with a smile.
Zidane has 6 sons and 4 daughters, about 50 grandchildren and many dozens of great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
Saleh Zidane is the oldest woman who came to be vaccinated at all Clalit health insurance branches in the country.
"I am already 75 years old and she still calls me a child," said her son Kamal Zidane, a retired police officer, with a smile.
Among her children and grandchildren are renowned doctors.
Her son, Prof. Jamal Zidane, established the oncology unit at Ziv Medical Center in Safed and recently retired, and her granddaughter is a gynecologist at Clalit.
Along with the assumption of her many descendants, she also lost two grandchildren in the Israeli wars.
"During this period of the corona we are very careful of her, we brought her a nurse from a staffing company who takes care of her and every day one of us with her, while keeping a distance and when we wear masks," concluded Kamal Zidane her son, "This week I also received the second vaccine Come to her with the extended family and hug her. "