Israel: When residents and staff at an assisted-living facility received their first shots of Pfizer Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine last month, they threw a spontaneous dance party and shook their hips, while remaining six feet apart from one another.Now, all of the 110 elderly residents and 45 staff members at the Bayit Balev retirement home in a city east of Tel Aviv have received both shots of the vaccine, but the mood is less jubilant.
As Israel remains under lockdown, and infections spread across the country, a return to normal still seems far off.“We don’t know when it’s going to be over," said 89-year old Elaine Aber, who has 23 grandchildren she hasn’t been able to hug in months.