Ministry of Education has begun the vaccination campaign for teaching staff

The Ministry of Education has announced that it has begun the vaccination campaign for teaching staff, under the name "Operation Returns to Life in Education". The ministry intends to offer about 180,000 teachers to be vaccinated in the near future, with priority given to teachers in special education, youth at risk and boarding schools. According to the Ministry of Education, teachers will receive a message this week calling on them to make an appointment for the vaccine, which will include a link to a registration form for teachers. In addition, assistants and secretarial and maintenance workers will also be able to be vaccinated as part of teacher preference.
On Tuesday, the labor dispute declared by the Teachers' Union will end with a demand to vaccinate Israeli teachers, in which the Histadrut announced that it would not disrupt distance learning activities. The chairman of the Teachers' Union, Yaffa Ben-David, announced that the conflict would continue until all teachers who wanted to be vaccinated were vaccinated.
Even before the start of the teachers' vaccination campaign, the Tel Aviv Municipality, the Ramat Gan Municipality and the Rehovot Municipality succeeded in vaccinating the teaching staff employed in their field. Other authorities did not wait for an official announcement and began vaccinating teachers today - including Ashkelon, Ashdod, Bat Yam, Netanya, Herzliya, Ramat Hasharon, Afula and possibly other local authorities.
In response, the Ministry of Health imposed sanctions on the Tel Aviv Municipality only and stopped supplying vaccines to the city, but did not impose similar sanctions on other cities.
The Histadrut said: "The Histadrut demands that the closure be used to vaccinate all teaching staff. When all teaching staff are vaccinated, we will be blessed with the implementation - not the decision. Distance learning will continue as usual."