With 800-700 new verifications to Corona being rediscovered daily;
When there is a consistent daily increase in the new verified to the omicron variant;
And with Israel on the brink of a worrying fifth wave of the epidemic, in parallel with a meteoric rise in the epidemic around the world, it was finally possible to hope and anticipate that the school immunization campaign would gain momentum and become a national and patriotic mission.
A task that the Ministries of Health and Education will be proud to be a partner in.
However, it seems that the Ministry of Education does not take any material responsibility for the vaccination campaign, and continues in the spirit of the Minister of Education, Yifat Shasha Bitton, to treat vaccines as a casual and trivial task.
Moreover, the operation is conducted as if someone is forcing the office - and he does so with a demonstrable and scandalous lack of desire.
All this, when the vaccination campaign for children is of real critical importance in strengthening the health protection of all residents of Israel.
Especially in light of the fact that all children in schools in the country aged 18-5 can get the vaccine, some also the third booster vaccine.
In the notifications received in recent days by parents in Israeli schools, information is provided on the dates on which the vaccinations will take place.
It seems that the invitation to vaccines deliberately lacks any value-based, moral and social reference.
Thus, instead of telling parents that in the fight against the plague they are welcome to vaccinate their children safely in schools - the Ministry of Education refers to vaccines as a purely technical matter, which is solely "the responsibility of the Ministry of Health", emphasizing that "child immunization is the parents' responsibility and discretion".
Parents are even asked to "come with their children to the vaccination site and accompany him during the vaccination," and parents who are unable to do so are required to update the school.
Such an invitation for vaccines during an epidemic - which has already claimed more than 8,200 Israeli victims who died in agony - testifies to a Ministry of Education that is not a real partner and to the struggle.
Such an invitation indicates an Ministry of Education that is running away from responsibility and any connection to vaccines, which beyond being medical treatment, express the degree of trust in the health and government authorities and the degree of public solidarity with the community and society.
After all, the vaccine not only protects the vaccinated person and his family - but also provides health protection to the community, the community and the entire country.
The technical wording, trivial and escaping the responsibility of inviting parents to vaccines in schools, expresses an anti-educational, anti-social and anti-health stance.
One could, of course, think of completely different formulations, which would encourage parents to vaccinate their children - and not focus on the technical and linguistic matter.
But the Ministry of Education continues to escape responsibility for its part in eradicating the corona in Israel, and is repeatedly raised here in its public office.
The office is unforgivably detrimental to the health and lives of all of us children, including our adult son.
The vaccine is intended to protect children, and also to increase Israel's health security.
The immunization of children and youth may make a critical contribution to the national struggle in Corona.
It will lead to a reduction in the spread of the plague of any kind, to a reduction in harm to adults from mass infections, and to a reduction in harm to anyone who cannot be vaccinated, including children under the age of 5. So contrary to the Ministry of Education's efforts against vaccines, Your children.
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