Anti-vaccination crisis

Police arrest man accused of impersonating healthcare professional, selling false measles cure

The arrest is part of the Health Ministry’s effort to combat misinformation and the dispensing of false medical treatments by unqualified individuals. 

Evidence found in the home of man accused of selling fake measles preventative and cure.
Highly contagious disease. Child with measles.

While scientists race to study spread of measles in US, Kennedy unravels hard-won gains

Magen David Adom ambulance outside The Green-Wagner ER

Israel faces early, severe flu season as Health Ministry urges mass vaccination

A sign of the CDC is seen on a podium during the meeting of the members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) advisory panel for vaccines convenes in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. June 25, 2025.

US CDC adopts Kennedy's anti-vaccine views on recast website


Back to life: Health Ministry launches campaign to encourage vaccination

Passport holders will be able to go out to restaurants with friends again, go to the gym, attend rock concerts and "sing along with every word," as well as go to cinemas and theaters.

Israelis sit down to eat with friends at a restaurant in an ad campaign by the Health Ministry to encourage vaccination for COVID-19.

Coronavirus: Poll finds Israel's vaccination rates vary by political view

Center-left respondents were found to be more likely to have received both vaccine doses.

Israelis receive the coronavirus vaccine in Tel Aviv after the Health Ministry announced that anyone over the age of 16 can now be vaccinated, Feb. 4, 2021.

Anti-vax Facebook group attracts thousands, shut down twice

Its members are insisting: "We are not anti-vaxxers"

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacks "Fake News" outlets on Facebook, March 26th, 2018.

Posters & books: Health Min. fights vaccine misinformation among haredim

The small, fringe group that is spreading the misinformation is denying infection rates, insisting that the virus is only a light flu, and that the whole thing is a conspiracy

Ultra-Orthodox men wait to receive the coronavirus vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccination center in Kiryat Ye'arim, January 25, 2021

Why is the US lagging in its vaccination efforts?

Shots are reaching nursing home residents at an even slower pace than others first in line, even though they are most at risk of dying of the virus.

Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester from Northwell Health at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, US, December 14, 2020.

Obama, Bush, Clinton volunteer to get COVID-19 vaccine on camera

About six in 10 (58%) United States citizens would agree to get vaccinated for COVID-19.

Coronavirus vaccine under development (illustrative)

The anti-vaccine movement promotes child neglect and abuse

A volunteer receives an injection in a human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against the novel coronavirus, at the Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, South Africa, June 24, 2020

Antisemitism rising in anti-vaxxer movement, UK study finds

The study analyzed 27 of the leading anti-vaccination groups present on Facebook and Twitter, with 79% of them having content that was deemed antisemitic.

In this image shared on Telegram on March 15, the coronavirus is presented as a trojan horse for “globalist” Jews.

Two babies hospitalized with rare meningitis after parents refuse vaccine

"What we went through was hell, one of the worst things I went through in my life: to know that my daughter was in danger of dying," the father of one of the babies told Channel 12.

Nurses take care of newborn babies at a nursery in Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem

No coronavirus vaccine can inoculate against anti-vaxxers

As the world ails, the movement against vaccinations is alive and well.

An employee of German biopharmaceutical company CureVac, demonstrates research workflow on a vaccine for the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease at a laboratory in Tuebingen, Germany