Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef on Sunday called on the ultra-orthodox public to receive the coronavirus vaccine, while Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau received the vaccine at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.
Despite the government’s efforts to reduce the rising disease rates in Haredi’s neighborhoods and districts, an alarming rise in diseases among the ultra-direct population has been noted.
Ashkenazi leader Rabbi David Lau receiving the coronavirus vaccine
“We were told and blessed by the grace of God to be blessed and a vaccine was found that will prevent coronavirus infection,” Rabbi Yosef wrote in an Ultra-Orthodox publication on Sunday.
“All necessary tests have been done and experts say the vaccine is really helpful in stopping the pandemic as long as it is not a risk.”
Rabbi Lau also raised his support before receiving the vaccine himself.
“I really hope this vaccine gives us all perfect health,” he said. “We are all here together, no matter right or left, religious or not, Jewish, Arab or anything nothing else. “
Rabbi Avraham Rubinstein, mayor of the town of Bnei Brak in Haredi, was vaccinated on Sunday.
“Go and get the vaccine to protect yourself and your loved ones,” Rubinstein said.
“I am here to set an example for the ultra-orthodox public, and I am sure, just as my fellow citizens went out to trial en masse, so they will come and get the vaccine. “
Bnei Mayor Brak Rabbi Avraham Rubinstein receiving the coronavirus vaccine
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Rebbe was also expected to get Hasidic Ger’s offspring, Yaakov Aryeh Alter, vaccinated on Sunday afternoon, after his wife tested positive for the virus.
His willingness to have the vaccine is expected to significantly increase uptake of the vaccine, at least in the Ger Hasidic movement.
With the exception of Ger rebbe, other ultra-orthodox leaders – who have a standing stance on the issue of promoting potential vaccines – have so far not supported the ‘get protection against the crown virus.
Very few people arrived Sunday to receive the vaccine at Jerusalem’s Haturim clinic, which offers services mostly to Ultra-Orthodox residents in the surrounding neighborhoods, despite calls to do so. by a number of key community leaders.
The rebbe of Hasidic Ger’s descendants, Yaakov Aryeh Alter
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“Very important letters have been sent out by senior members of the ultra-directive community, saying it is right to be vaccinated,” said Meuhedet health watchdog chairman Eyal Gabay.
“We’ve received letters of support from directing rabbits in the ultra-direct community, and we have a unique relationship with the public we trust,” Gabay said. We received a letter from Hebron Yeshiva leader Rabbi David HaCohen urging people to get vaccinated. “
Gabay also said the HMO has gone out of its way to make sure the people of Haredi know that the vaccine is available and accessible to those who want to move themselves.
“The ultra-rectangular public – and I will say this with confidence – will get the vaccine just as much if not more than the general public,” Gabay said.
“What we need is confidence in science, safety and in the rabbits, and I believe we have that.”