# Israel begins a national COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Date: 2020

## The fact

On 19 December 2020 Israel began injecting Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in a campaign [Netanyahu](/people/benjamin-netanyahu) personally publicised as prime minister.

## Context

The health ministry ran logistics. Pfizer contracted. Occupied-territory access for Palestinians is a neighbouring later dispute, not this first-day row as solved. He did not invent the mRNA.

Leviathan the same month is a different file. Abraham is earlier that autumn.

The Prime Minister of Israel chairs the cabinet, is the political principal of the IDF, and can table Knesset bills. He does not write a Hamas military order, an ICC judgment, a US presidential proclamation, or a UN Security Council resolution.

## Evidence and sources

Ministry of Health of Israel carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [vaccine accessibility](/drivers/vaccine-accessibility) and [pandemic preparedness](/drivers/pandemic-preparedness): a completed rapid national rollout is a dated health instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 19 December 2020 start of Israel’s COVID vaccination campaign, independently reported.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He politically owned and publicised it. Pfizer supplied.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Israel begins a national COVID-19 vaccination campaign, not a later speech about Israel begins a national COVID-19 vaccination campaign.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Israel begins a national COVID-19 vaccination campaign on 2020-12-19 is not a licence to treat every later Ministry of Health of Israel communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Israel begins a national COVID-19 vaccination campaign into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The health ministry ran the campaign. He politically owned and publicised it. Pfizer supplied. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Benjamin Netanyahu: https://factrail.ai/people/benjamin-netanyahu

## Drivers

- Vaccine Accessibility: https://factrail.ai/drivers/vaccine-accessibility
- Pandemic Preparedness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/pandemic-preparedness

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-vaccine-idUSKBN28T0MG
- https://www.gov.il/en

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/il-covid-vax-2020