It was one of the world's earliest, fastest, and most successful rollouts of the COVID-19 vaccine, giving other nations an inoculation game plan and an optimistic glimpse of the future. So how did Israel do it? This is the inside story of a dramatic yearlong stretch in the county's history--from the first wave of the pandemic and the lockdowns and restrictions that followed to the aggressive vaccination campaign that re-opened the economy to the outbreak of violence between Palestinians and Israeli forces--told through the eyes of its citizens.
