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Magen David Adom, Israel’s National Emergency Medical and Blood Services Organization, continues the vaccination project in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and now vaccinates teenagers aged 12-17. Due to being minors, the youngsters come to the vaccination complexes accompanied by their parents, who support them.

In recent weeks, there has been concern that young people will refuse to be vaccinated, but the reality in Israel has been that for young people this was not a question at all. After a year and a half in which they were forced to remain in their homes, in closures, isolation and social alienation, losing precious time in school, youth movements, the youngsters said "no" to Corona and came in masse to get vaccinated.

A visit to the vaccine complexes around the country shows exemplary efficiency. Skilled, agile and professional MDA teams perform the vaccination quickly, give an explanation to each of the young people and supervise them after the end of the process for a period of 15 minutes.

The parents and children look happy and in conversations with them, they report that a stone has been rolled over their hearts "We have come to get vaccinated because we want to return to routine. We do not want more closures and isolation. We want to enjoy our summer, to be liberated." That's what Klil, a 17-year-old from Tel Aviv, told us.

The decision to speed up the vaccination process for young people was made in light of the renewed outbreak of the Corona virus in Israel, and the Delta variant which is known for being more contagious. The Government of Israel and the Ministry of Health asked MDA to mobilize for this operation this time as well, and to lead it, and the activity began.

In recent days we have witnessed an increased number of patients and tens of thousands of young people entering quarantine each day. The hope is that the vaccination process will assist in pausing the current spread of the virus and MDA is eagerly awaiting the results in a few weeks time.