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Supplementary materialsSupplementary Table S1: QuestionnaireHave you or anyone in your household been sick with COVID-19? (below is the rating scale):1. Both myself and another person from my household2. Only myself3. Only another person from the household4. No one has been sick9. I don’t knowTo what extent do you feel, if at all, that you are at risk of being infected with the coronavirus? (below is the rating scale:1. No risk at all2. Low risk3. Medium risk4. High risk5.Very high risk9. I don’t knowAre you of the impression that the children are suffering or not suffering during the period in which their schools are closed? (below is the rating scale):1. They are certainly suffering2. I think they are suffering3. I think they are not suffering4. They are certainly not suffering9. I don’t knowTo what extent do you agree or not agree with the following statements:The damage to the economy due to the lockdowns and restrictions harms the country more than COVID-19 would have damaged it had there been no lockdowns and restrictions1. Strongly agree2. Agree3. Disagree4. Strongly Disagree9. I don’t knowThe damage to people’s sense of freedom damages Israeli society more than COVID-19 would have damaged it.1. Strongly agree2. Agree3. Disagree4. Strongly Disagree9. I don’t knowWhat is more damaging to the mental health of the citizens – the restrictions and lockdowns or COVID-19 had there been no lockdowns and restrictions? (below is the rating scale):1. The restrictions and lockdowns are much more damaging 2. The restrictions and lockdowns are more damaging3. COVID-19 would have been more damaging4. COVID-19 would have been much more damaging9. I don’t knowCould herd immunity be achieved naturally without the need of intervention by the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines? (below is the rating scale):1. It certainly could have been achieved 2. I think it could have been achieved 3. I don’t think it could have been achieved 4. It certainly could not have been achieved 9. I don’t knowWhile a campaign to vaccinate the public is underway and many in the public are getting vaccinated, was imposing a third lockdown, which was characterized by opening the schools and by less restrictive enforcement, justified or not? (below is the rating scale):1. Absolutely justified 2. Justified 3. Unjustified4. Absolutely unjustified 9. I don’t knowIn the context of COVID-19 information and recommendations – who do you believe more? (below is the rating scale):1. Doctors who are on the committees advising the Ministry of Health about COVID-19 2. Doctors who are not advising the Ministry of Health about COVID-193. Doctors in both groups to the same extent4. No one 9. I don’t knowAre the following statements true or untrue about you:At first it was hard for me to accept the positions of experts who criticized the Ministry of Health’s strict policy and as time goes by, I have begun accepting their positions1.Very true of me2. Somewhat true of me3. Somewhat untrue of me4. Very untrue of me9. I don’t knowPeople in the health system who criticize the system or express disagreement with the system are jeopardizing their career1.Very true 2. Somewhat true 3. Somewhat untrue 4. Very untrue 9. I don’t knowIs it true or untrue that as long as the COVID-19 committee’s protocols are privileged (gag order) for the next thirty years it is hard to trust the government? (below is the rating scale):1. Very true 2. Somewhat true3. Somewhat untrue4. Very untrue9. I don’t knowWas the instruction that no close family member come in contact with elderly people justified or unjustified? (below is the rating scale):1. Very justified 2. Somewhat Justified 3. Somewhat unjustified4. Very unjustified 9. I don’t knowIs it your impression that the government is presenting to the public all the disadvantages of the vaccines? (below is the rating scale):1. Presenting all the disadvantages 2. Presenting a large portion of the disadvantages 3.Presenting a small portion of the disadvantages 4. Not presenting any disadvantages 9. I don’t knowAre you receiving information from the Ministry of Healthy in a completely transparent manner? below is the rating scale:1. I am not receiving any information 2. I am receiving transparent information to a lesser extent 3.I am receiving information that is somewhat transparent. 4. I am receiving a lot of information 5. I am receiving information to a great extent9. I don’t knowWhich of the following statements is most appropriate? (below is the rating scale):1. Citizens must be required to get vaccinated and those who do should get a reward (Green Passport) 2. Citizens must be required to get vaccinated but no reward (Green Passport) should be given to those who do 3.Vaccination should not be a requirement but those who do get the vaccine should get a reward (Green Passport) 4. Vaccination should not be required of rewarded (Green Passport) 9. I don’t knowTo what extent is each of the following statements true or not about you:I believe the vaccine will protect me from getting infected with COVID-191.Very true of me2. Somewhat true of me3. Somewhat untrue of me4. Very untrue of me9. I don’t knowI do not have sufficient information about the COVID-19 vaccine to make an informed decision whether or not to get vaccinated1.Very true of me2. Somewhat true of me3. Somewhat untrue of me4. Very untrue of me9. I don’t knowThe effects of the vaccine have not been tested over a long period of time and therefore the vaccination campaign in Israel constitutes an experiment on humans. 1.Very true of me2. Somewhat true of me3. Somewhat untrue of me4. Very untrue of me9. I don’t knowIt is important that people over 65 and people in at-risk groups get vaccinated. 1.Very true of me2. Somewhat true of me3. Somewhat untrue of me4. Very untrue of me9. I don’t knowYoung people should put off getting the vaccine until they see how it affects people worldwide. 1.Very true of me2. Somewhat true of me3. Somewhat untrue of me4. Very untrue of me9. I don’t knowIn your opinion, what methods are the Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Health using to communicate the COVID-19 crisis to the public? below is the rating scale:1. Intimidation methods2. Methods that originate from understanding the public sentiment (empathy) 3.Methods of providing complete information transparency about the COVID-19 crisis 4. Methods of encouraging social solidarity 9. I don’t knowTo what extent do you believe that you will be able to return to your normal life routine after getting the two doses of the vaccine? (below is the rating scale):1. I strongly believe it 2. I believe it 3. I don’t believe it 4. I strongly don’t believe it 9. I don’t knowShould the restrictions on meeting elderly people have been imposed or should each elderly person been allowed to decide for themselves whether or not they want to meet family members? (below is the rating scale):1. I strongly believe that meeting with elderly people should have been prohibited 2. I think that meeting with elderly people should have been prohibited 3. I think that each elderly person should have been allowed to decide for themselves 4. I strongly believe that each elderly person should have been allowed to decide for themselves9. No opinionWith respect to each of the following descriptions please indicate the extent to which it describes you. Give your answer on a scale of 1 to 7, where 1 means ‘does not describe me at all’ and 7 – ‘completely describes me’. 1234567Don’t know19.1 I am critical19.2 I care about other people’s opinions19.3 I am anxious42.4 I am open to new experiences 42.5 I am conservative/ follow the norms42.6 I tend to take responsibility even when I know that there are others that are responsible for taking care of the matterHow old are you?:The average household income in Israel is NIS 13,500 (gross) (if you live alone, it is NIS 7,950 (gross) for an individual). Where do you rate your household’s income relative to the average: (below is the rating scale:1. Well below average 2. A little below average 3. Same as the average 4. A little over average5. Well above average9. Decline to answer)What is your highest level of education? (below is the rating scale):1. Elementary / partial high school 2. High school 3. Tertiary education4. Academic 9. Decline to answerDo you have any underlying condition (for example: diabetes, oncology patient, heart condition, and so forth) (below is the rating scale):1. I have an underlying condition 2. I do not have an underlying condition 9. Decline to answerWhere were you born? (below is the rating scale):1. Israel 2. The Former Soviet Union 3. Other9. Decline to answerDid you immigrate before or after 1990? (below is the rating scale):1. Before 1990 2. 1990 and later 9. Refuse to answerMarital status (below is the rating scale:1. Married/ in a relationship / divorced /widow(er), with children 2. Married/ in a relationship / divorced /widow(er), without children3. Single not in a relationship with children4. Single not in a relationship without children9. Decline to answerAccording to you and your family’s ethnic origin, how would you define yourself? (below is the rating scale):1. Ashkenazi 2. Mizrahi3. Sephardic 4. Combination of Ashkenazi and Mizrahi5. Native of the Soviet Union6. Member of the Ethiopian community 7. Other9. Decline to answerSupplementary Table S2: Coalition Positions versus Opposition Positions about Controversial TopicsTopicThe CoalitionThe OppositionThree LockdownsIn favor of LockdownsIsrael was under three lockdowns. The first lockdown started around the Passover holiday, and its purpose was to lower morbidity and not to get to a situation resembling that in other countries such as Italy and the USA. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Ashkenazi</Author><Year>2020 March 26</Year><RecNum>41051</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">1</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41051</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="ff4a02fa-cd3c-48c6-b046-53aa02c35951">41051</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Ashkenazi, S.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>What sets Israel apart from Italy and what do the numbers of the race for flattening the curve look like</title><secondary-title>Globes.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 March 26</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>1 To avoid a second lockdown, the Coronavirus Project Coordinator Ronni Gamzu recommended the Traffic Light Plan (Ramzor) to the Coronavirus Cabinet. The purpose of the Ramzor plan was to establish a unified procedure that would regulate cities’ activities in accordance with the morbidity rate in each municipality. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Ravid</Author><Year>2020 August 20</Year><RecNum>41053</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">2</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41053</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="f5a52602-5f28-49f9-9b5a-6583d2057195">41053</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Ravid, B.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Third time: Corona Cabinet convenes - but does not vote for Gamzu&apos;s traffic light plan</title><secondary-title>Walla.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 August 20</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>2 However, the plan was not approved, and in September the government approved a second lockdown. Upon the increase in the R statistic (the average number of people one infected person will pass on a virus to) and the spread of the British and South African mutations in Israel, the country went under a third lockdown. Change in Perceptions of Lockdowns as a Means of Controlling the VirusProfessor Ran Balicer, Head of the Professional Coronavirus Cabinet at Magen Israel: “The forecasts were wrong. The lockdown as a magical cure is no longer feasible, it’s dead.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Filut</Author><Year>2021 February 7</Year><RecNum>41015</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">3</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41015</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615397861" guid="5636b3ec-0466-4f53-899c-26b70053f316">41015</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Filut, A.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>The closure is behind us, and the government still does not have an orderly plan</title><secondary-title>Calcalist.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2021 February 7</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 10</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>3Against LockdownsFirst Lockdown: Prof. Yoram Lass: “The pandemic is dying out in 24 European countries, the number of COVID-19 deaths is lower than the number of flu deaths in 2017… this lockdown needs to be entirely cancelled. Eventually everyone is going to be infected with the virus, with or without a lockdown. The lockdown does not prevent infection, it only causes a slower infection… lockdown is unemployment and unemployment is death…” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Mako morning news</Author><Year>2020 April 19</Year><RecNum>41052</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">4</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41052</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="5dbaee65-78aa-4c5d-8dbf-f3a216e5621c">41052</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Mako morning news,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Prof. Yoram Lass: &quot;More people will die from unemployment than from the corona&quot;</title></titles><number>2021 March 13</number><dates><year>2020 April 19</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> Prof. Udi Qimron (from the Model Common Sense and the COVID-19 Public Emergency Council - PECC) and Dr. Uri Gavish: “And can we determine that the policy recommended by the Ministry of Health’s experts indeed succeeded? Unfortunately, that argument does not have a scientific basis, and the results on the ground indicate that it did not succeed. An observation published by Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel demonstrates that even after implementing a lockdown policy, as well as after implementing a no-lockdown policy, the rapid spread of the virus stops after a similar timeframe (perhaps due to natural immunity? – we will get to that later).” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Qimron</Author><Year>2020 April 13</Year><RecNum>41054</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">5</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41054</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="4b662372-a823-4586-83eb-b6ce94b0d973">41054</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Qimron, U.</author><author>Gavish, U.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Maybe the vaccine is already with us?</title><secondary-title>YNET.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 April 13</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>5The Traffic Light Plan (Ramzor):Idit Matot as part of Magen Israel’s Professional Coronavirus Cabinet: “It is a shame that the government did not declare red cities or tight restrictions as was recommended at first, but rather a lockdown… there is no infection due to walking in public space, there is infection in closed quarters and at gatherings…” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Ashkenazi</Author><Year>2020 September 12</Year><RecNum>41055</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">6</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41055</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="066bc97f-b603-467d-9262-70a220268025">41055</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Ashkenazi, S.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>&quot;Will only cause damage&quot;: Prof. Idit Matot opposes the decision on a full closure. And she&apos;s not the only one</title><secondary-title>Globes.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 September 12</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>6Second Lockdown:Dr. Amir Shachar of the Model Common Sense and the PECC: “A lockdown is a serious mistake. Mortality was higher in countries that had a lockdown… “ ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Year>2020 September 11</Year><RecNum>41064</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">7</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41064</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="5ddb8015-a493-4425-9953-054bfe84517e">41064</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors></contributors><titles><title>Aybee Binyamin interviews Dr. Amir Shachar on the radio</title></titles><number>2021 March 13</number><dates><year>2020 September 11</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> Third Lockdown:PECC: “This devastating third lockdown will cause serious damage to hundreds of thousands of Israeli households. …it is not health versus the economy. It is damage to health!” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>The Coronavirus Public Emergency Council</Author><Year>2020 December 24</Year><RecNum>41062</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">8</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41062</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="361f1819-9851-45ac-8a5b-1647995a7f42">41062</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>The Coronavirus Public Emergency Council,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Re: Urgent call for closure prevention</title></titles><number>2021 March 13</number><dates><year>2020 December 24</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> TestingAt first against expansion of the testing policy, and later in favor of increasing the number of tests.Sadetzki set the tone with respect to implementation of the COVID-19 testing policy. At the beginning of the crisis Sadetzki argued that increasing the number of tests, as well as expanding the conditions for performing tests, are not necessary means for curbing the pandemic. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>IsraeliPM</Author><Year>2020 March 14</Year><RecNum>41056</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">9</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41056</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="7af6f59a-d27e-448c-9d16-100800a48ba6">41056</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>IsraeliPM,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Prime Minister Netanyahu in statements to the media following a consultation on the Coronavirus</title></titles><number>2021 March 13</number><dates><year>2020 March 14</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> The policy changed due to public pressure on the ministry, and following the outbreak of the pandemic in nursing homes and Yuli Edelstein taking office as the Minister of Health, the criteria were expanded. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Efrati</Author><Year>2020 June 21</Year><RecNum>41058</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">10</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41058</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="feaaf3c0-5a74-4a09-896c-03cf2f566d64">41058</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Efrati, I.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Factors involved in managing the corona crisis: Sadetsky torpedoed critical initiatives and hid information</title><secondary-title>Haaretz.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 June 21</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> September 3</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>10Dr. Avi Mizrachi of the Model Common Sense: “The Ministry of Health’s testing policy is erroneous from a medical and epidemiological standpoint. The tests performed nowadays are screening tests. In other words, they are testing a very large number of people who are not sick, asymptomatic, and when screening tests are performed the sample group needs to be very accurately fine-tuned, otherwise it is ineffective, unnecessary and wasteful.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Tvizer</Author><Year>2020 October 25</Year><RecNum>41057</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">11</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41057</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="35c1ae38-b253-4bd2-bc35-cb3123b6e135">41057</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Tvizer, I.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>The closure is a mistake, and this is not how tests are collected either: Dr. Avi Mizrachi is no longer an opposition to decision-making in the government</title><secondary-title>N12.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 October 25</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>11At-Risk Groups – ChildrenShutting down the schools to curb the morbidity.Bar Siman Tov: “We are seeing a doubling of the number of daily tests among people who are not in schools. You cannot close it off. Kids come home, they have parents, friends, immediate surrounding”. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Ashkenazi</Author><Year>2020 June 11</Year><RecNum>41059</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">12</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41059</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="dbaa8174-032d-4527-9895-69359c582b84">41059</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Ashkenazi, S.</author><author>Weissberg, H.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Moshe Bar Siman Tov: &quot;Yoram Lass is a cartoon, admiration for him is a very bad thing&quot;</title><secondary-title>Globes.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 June 11</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>12Prof. Eli Vaksman, physicist and astrophysics expert from the Weizmann Institute who is advising the National Security Council (NSC) in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic: “It is very important to stop right now and not continue lifting restrictions… a rapid reopening will create a loss of control and we will go back to another lockdown that will be even more devasting.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Golan</Author><Year>2020 November 5</Year><RecNum>41061</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">13</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41061</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="9b68504d-bf0c-4225-9e1d-8131062f9ef5">41061</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Golan, A.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Experts claim: there should be a two-week wait between the opening of the education system and the opening of trade</title><secondary-title>Israel Hayom.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 November 5</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>13Against closing the schoolsPECC: “Studies worldwide consistently demonstrate that children get infected less and even infect fewer people, especially adults. Meta-analysis discovered that a child’s chance of getting infected is 50% lower than of an adult. According to the American CDC, infection rate in children is less than 2% of COVID-19 cases. Furthermore, in approximately 90% of adult infection cases that have a known infection source, it was found that the source was other adults, not children”. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>The Coronavirus Public Emergency Council</Author><Year>2020 December 27</Year><RecNum>41060</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">14</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41060</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="63b5fecc-6416-4680-9cc3-f13a996570d3">41060</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>The Coronavirus Public Emergency Council,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Subject: Continuation of the education system during the Corona crisis</title></titles><number>2021 March 13</number><dates><year>2020 December 27</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> PECC: “You are disregarding the devastation caused by your irresponsible, shortsighted policy. You keep disregarding all the numbers that demonstrate that we are indeed losing children, but not to the disease… in all countries around the world the segment of young people hurt by COVID-19 is negligible to non-existent… we call upon you in the name of science, morality, ethics and the Hippocratic Oath: change your policy immediately, open the schools.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>The Coronavirus Public Emergency Council</Author><Year>2021 February 9</Year><RecNum>41063</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">15</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41063</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="420bd9a3-89f2-4f95-9527-f804f0e0aade">41063</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>The Coronavirus Public Emergency Council,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Relax. recover. change!</title></titles><number>2021 March 13</number><dates><year>2021 February 9</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> At-Risk Groups – Elderly People Locking down the entire population to safeguard at-risk groups.Bar Siman Tov: “Indeed our population is young, but we have a large mass of elderly people who are vulnerable to the disease… had we not gone under lockdown, there certainly could have been thousands of deaths”. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Ashkenazi</Author><Year>2020 June 11</Year><RecNum>41059</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">12</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41059</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="dbaa8174-032d-4527-9895-69359c582b84">41059</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Ashkenazi, S.</author><author>Weissberg, H.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Moshe Bar Siman Tov: &quot;Yoram Lass is a cartoon, admiration for him is a very bad thing&quot;</title><secondary-title>Globes.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 June 11</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>12Safeguarding the at-risk groupProf. Udi Qimron, Prof. Eyal Shachar, Prof. Michael Levitt and Dr. Uri Gavish from the Model Common Sense: “Contrary to popular opinion, it was not the goal of the Swedish policy to get as many people as possible sick with COVID-19. Its goal was and still is to enable normal life, while recommending that vulnerable people take precautions and allowing people who are not at risk to be exposed to the virus and thus develop immunity”. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Qimron</Author><Year>2020 July 20</Year><RecNum>41065</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">16</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41065</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="be66cfea-5121-4fe4-a44c-53cedc04474e">41065</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Qimron, U.</author><author>Shachar, A.</author><author>Levitt, M.</author><author>Gavish, U.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Israel&apos;s opportunity to emerge from the crisis</title><secondary-title>Haaretz.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 July 20</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>16 Prof. Asher Elhayani:“… The elderly have also reached their limits. We need to let them go out to the parks, breathe fresh air. As individuals, at designated times. That is how you take care of a pandemic. Not by locking everyone in prison. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Glazer</Author><Year>2020 October 5</Year><RecNum>41066</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">17</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41066</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="aa2339d2-5743-45ba-b1f4-5a42d2ba6bf0">41066</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Glazer, H.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Collapse? Do we need a closure? senior doctors in the field think the country has lost direction</title><secondary-title>Haaretz.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 October 5</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>17COVID-19 Morbidity Data-Reproduction Rate (R)The government is relying on the reproduction rate (R) in making its decisions.Prof. Eran Segal, professor of computational biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Computer Science Department, and some of the team of experts advising the NSC in its fight against COVID-19: “… we have to stop now and see how lifting the restrictions that went into effect yesterday impact the reproduction rate and the number of daily new cases in Israel. Unfortunately, I am not sure we can continue lifting restrictions.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Golan</Author><Year>2020 November 5</Year><RecNum>41061</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">13</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41061</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="9b68504d-bf0c-4225-9e1d-8131062f9ef5">41061</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Golan, A.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Experts claim: there should be a two-week wait between the opening of the education system and the opening of trade</title><secondary-title>Israel Hayom.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 November 5</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>13The reproduction rate R is meaningless and inaccurate.Dr. Gavish of the Model Common Sense about reproduction rate R:“The reproduction rate R is a figure that is meaningless as far as its ability to predict. The reason I am mentioning it is that unfortunately it has appeared in a number of presentations that were presented to decision makers and others and a meaningless reproduction rate managed to shut down the country more than once…”A year’s experience shows us that this week’s R does not tell us what next week’s R is going to be. The whole idea of a multiplication coefficient is that we can say there will be growth at a rate we can predict. We cannot predict, and therefore using it is scientifically flawed.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Gavish</Author><Year>2021 February 10</Year><RecNum>41067</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">18</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41067</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="b50498e1-8c24-4b5d-bdb8-0868b62d822a">41067</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Gavish, U.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Why the coefficient of infection R is insignificant, what is immune depth and why the method of closure is ineffective - watch a lecture by Dr. Gavish who explains this in a very simple way</title></titles><number>2021 March 13</number><dates><year>2021 February 10</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> are no infections in the open air; keep distance and wear masksShutting down the beaches and parks ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Bason</Author><Year>2020 March 17</Year><RecNum>41068</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">19</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41068</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="46ac2386-d551-4632-958e-0d3a11ee9610">41068</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Bason, E.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>The Ministry of Health announces: It is forbidden to go to parks, it is forbidden to go to malls, it is forbidden to go to the sea</title></titles><number>2021 March 13</number><dates><year>2020 March 17</year></dates><publisher>Israel Ministry of Health</publisher><urls><related-urls><url> Common Sense: “The effectiveness of wearing masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus is not proven (we mean the common types of masks, and the way they are used on a daily basis, as opposed to, for example, how masks are used in the medical environment). There are contradictory studies about this issue… In any case, we believe there is no point in wearing masks in open spaces, since transmission of the virus in the open air is very low in general, and in particular it should not be required…” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Model Common Sense</Author><Year>2020 October 28</Year><RecNum>41069</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">20</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41069</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="bb7abc28-a57e-4998-97a2-58dc7c1f1068">41069</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Model Common Sense,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Masks - our position</title></titles><number>2021 March 13</number><dates><year>2020 October 28</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> CollapseHeavy load at the hospitals, the hospitals are collapsing.Prof. Eran Segal of the Weizmann Institute: Prof. Segal… “The moment the load begins to increase there is a gradual process through which it starts to make an impact. Doctors in all the COVID-19 departments describe it in their own voice, and we see it in the data analysis.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Tvizer</Author><Year>2021 January 18</Year><RecNum>41070</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">21</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41070</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="59f2c613-34c3-4103-8351-ab0a5a3024a0">41070</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Tvizer, I.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Israeli researchers: hospital congestion may have led to excess mortality</title><secondary-title>N12.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2021 January 18</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>21 Prof. Ran Balicer: “I don’t see any other way considering the fact that at this very moment the hospitals are under a very heavy load, and some of them are saying that the quality of treatment is being compromised.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Caspit</Author><Year>2021 January 31</Year><RecNum>41071</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">22</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41071</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="2d8744ac-09b6-4441-a080-4b5cc3ae33a0">41071</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Caspit, B.</author><author>Magal, Y.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>The ministers&apos; dilemma: the accordion method, eradication or relief that can come at a heavy price</title><secondary-title>Maariv.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2021 January 31</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>22There is no load at the hospitals, the hospitals are not collapsing in comparison to previous years.PECC: “Not only is the December 2020 load not high, but it is extraordinarily low… only 3 COVID-19 departments are above 80% occupancy (but lower than 90%) and 18 COVID-19 departments are under 50% occupancy. The consensus is that the 2020 winter is one of the least busy ones experienced by the health system in recent years…” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>The Coronavirus Public Emergency Council</Author><Year>2020 December 26</Year><RecNum>41072</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">23</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41072</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="b0a249bb-08ad-486a-ad25-dd33c5cc6d1d">41072</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>The Coronavirus Public Emergency Council,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Subject: Flawed factual basis presented to government members as part of a phone survey regarding a third lockdown</title></titles><number>2021 March 13</number><dates><year>2020 December 26</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> Dr. Yoav Yehezkelli of the Model Common Sense and of PECC: “… lately we have been “informed” by an investigator from the field of computer sciences that this year there is excess mortality because of the overload – this is what people who don’t know what the departments and clinics look like every winter write… the old lady in the hallway, who suffered every winter from flu complications, who lucky for us disappeared this year, only to be replaced by an old lady sick with COVID-19 in an isolated room, surrounded by an exhausted and tired staff wearing space suits.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Yehezkelli</Author><Year>2021 January 21</Year><RecNum>41073</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">24</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41073</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="036ec190-0052-4652-aca0-7d3c1ba33a3b">41073</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Yehezkelli, Y.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>The load in the hospitals does not only depend on numbers, it is also in our hands</title></titles><number>2021 March 13</number><dates><year>2021 January 21</year></dates><publisher>Doctors Only</publisher><urls><related-urls><url> scare tacticsNetanyahu: “These are high numbers, very high. And in our country, we may, God forbid, reach very high numbers. And therefore, we are taking a stand to do everything we can so it won’t happen. The last pandemic we can point to that was similar in its characteristics to what is happening now is the Spanish Flu that raged around the world in 1918…” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>IsraeliPM</Author><Year>2020 March 12</Year><RecNum>41076</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">25</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41076</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="ea9a4960-fbc1-4b53-a4ab-27ef9b7daefd">41076</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>IsraeliPM,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Netanyahu, Health Minister Litzman, Finance Minister Kahlon, and Education Minister Peretz made statements to the media</title></titles><number>2021 March 13</number><dates><year>2020 March 12</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> Ministry of Health’s campaign: “There’s a chance we won’t get out of this! Don’t wait for the vaccines to run out – go out and get vaccinated.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Israel Ministry of Health</Author><Year>2021 February 12</Year><RecNum>41078</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">26</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41078</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="8205a5dd-bcba-4e24-b33b-15ecf374f801">41078</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Israel Ministry of Health,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>There’s a chance we won’t get out of this! Don’t wait for the vaccines to run out – go out and get vaccinated</title></titles><number>2021 March 13</number><dates><year>2021 February 12</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> No to intimidationProf. Hagai Levine, who represents the voices of opposition within the coalition of Magen Israel’s Professional Coronavirus Cabinet:“… intimidation is not the optimal tool for motivating the public to act and it is better to provide the public with information, good examples and practical recommendations on how to protect its health and the health of its loved ones…” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>The Hebrew University of Jerusalem</Author><Year>2020</Year><RecNum>41074</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">27,28</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41074</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="0482e811-f11e-4575-9985-a1192dd018d9">41074</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Survey: threats of fines or detention in the Corona crisis did not change the behavior of Israelis</title></titles><number>2021 March 13</number><dates><year>2020</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> May 26</Year><RecNum>41075</RecNum><record><rec-number>41075</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="e1730b92-b6de-46dc-9c05-29bcb2338b4b">41075</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors></contributors><titles><title>The Corona crisis: the threats of fines and detention have not changed the behavior of Israelis</title><secondary-title>Kol Rega.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 May 26</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>27,28 PECC: “Paid advertising by the Ministry of Health – “There’s a chance we won’t get out of this”!Think about it for a moment: The War of Independence. The Yom Kippur War. Suicide attacks. Never was there a government body that expressed such defeatism and intimidation as the Ministry of Health is doing! Is the message to the public that the Zionist enterprise is under existential threat because of COVID-19? Especially now that those who are at risk are vaccinated? We will win. Of course, we will win. Coronavirus may vanish for good and we might learn to live with it like we live with other winter diseases, but we will get out of this!” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Machatzlakorona</Author><Year>2021 February 15</Year><RecNum>41077</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">29</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41077</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="d4bb317f-8945-4eeb-a17c-897f2ead8f51">41077</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Machatzlakorona, </author></authors></contributors><titles></titles><number>2021 March 13</number><dates><year>2021 February 15</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url>. Yoav Yehezkelli of the Model Common Sense and of PECC: “In the history of epidemics there comes a time that demons come out of hibernation amongst humans and hit human society. That’s it, they are here big time: The demons of fear, denial, racism, discrimination, hatred of the other, loss of compassion, dismantling of basic values. Why?The human response to an epidemic navigates the space between fear and denial…” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Yehezkelli</Author><Year>2021 February 17</Year><RecNum>41079</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">30</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41079</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="2ab72360-86e2-4c29-a1fa-b131ef32c044">41079</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Yehezkelli, Y.</author></authors></contributors><titles></titles><number>2021 March 13</number><dates><year>2021 February 17</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> Transparency The protocols documenting the decision-making process are sealed for 30 years.“The deliberations of government meetings are classified as confidential material for 30 years.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Maanit</Author><Year>2020 June 8</Year><RecNum>41080</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">31</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41080</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="325fdec2-419a-4c68-9a6f-4e63c565ba6b">41080</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Maanit, C.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Following the &quot;lost&quot; protocols: why does the public not know how the government decided on closure and economic paralysis?</title><secondary-title>Globes,</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 June 8</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>31No transparencyProf. Hagai Levine representing the opposition voices within the coalition in Magen Israel’s Professional Coronavirus Cabinet:“The lack of transparency is unacceptable. There is an information center that is not transparent, and allegedly according to its own declaration it does not have any epidemiology or public health experts. The analysis itself is at times unprofessional, and sometimes incorrect. For example, in the last report there is no differential approach to the distribution of the disease in Israel, and there is no actual connection between the findings and the recommendations”. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Year>2020 June 20</Year><RecNum>41081</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">32</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41081</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="8656137b-91b4-41a2-b5c0-609359e51a33">41081</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors></contributors><titles><title>&quot;Unprofessional, not serious&quot;: an attack on the report that stated that Israel is entering the second wave of Corona</title><secondary-title>The Marker.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 June 20</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>32 Prof. Eitan Friedman from PECC:“Evidence of the attempt to prevent a public debate on the decision-making process is the astonishing fact, in my opinion, that the Coronavirus Cabinet’s protocols are sealed for 30 years. What is in there that endangers our security? Why is there a lack of transparency in the decision making process? …” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Friedman</Author><Year>2021 January 12</Year><RecNum>41082</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">33</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41082</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731266" guid="5f6d924f-0bf8-4a8c-bb57-f0bc4d54386c">41082</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Friedman, E.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Not everyone was wrong: Israel was dragged after the world&apos;s closures - instead of being a role model</title><secondary-title>N12.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2021 January 12</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>33References ADDIN EN.REFLIST 1.Ashkenazi S. 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N12.2021 January 12.Supplementary Table S3: Vaccination IssuesThe Vaccines The CoalitionThe OppositionImmunological Depth Against the Swedish modelProf. Galia Rahav, Head of the Infectious Disease Unit at Sheba Medical Center and a member of Magen Israel’s Professional Coronavirus Cabinet stressed that the Swedish model is dangerous: “Treatment and assessments about this matter need to be left to public health experts, to epidemiology and infectious diseases experts… in the Swedish model they reached a 6.8% mortality rate versus 0.7% in Israel.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Doctors Only editorial board</Author><Year>2020 September 8</Year><RecNum>41088</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">1</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41088</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615801485" guid="1aa3f02d-4985-40ce-967b-9eda66a52671">41088</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Doctors Only editorial board,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>The head of the public health services admitted: &quot;there are no clear data on corona victims in the country&quot;</title><secondary-title>Doctors Only.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 September 8</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 15</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>1 In favor of the Swedish modelProf. Udi Qimron, Prof. Eyal Shachar, Prof. Michael Levitt and Dr. Uri Gavish of the Model Common Sense: “Contrary to popular opinion, it was not the goal of the Swedish policy to get as many people as possible sick with COVID-19. Its goal was and still is to enable normal life, while recommending that vulnerable people take precautions and allowing people who are not at risk to be exposed to the virus and thus develop immunity to it”. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Qimron</Author><Year>2020 July 20</Year><RecNum>41065</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">2</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41065</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="be66cfea-5121-4fe4-a44c-53cedc04474e">41065</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Qimron, U.</author><author>Shachar, A.</author><author>Levitt, M.</author><author>Gavish, U.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Israel&apos;s opportunity to emerge from the crisis</title><secondary-title>Haaretz.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 July 20</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>2 At-Risk GroupsMinistry of Health guidelines: encouraging vaccination of the entire population from age 16 up. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Globes service</Author><Year>2021, February 3</Year><RecNum>41089</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">3</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41089</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615802588" guid="53b8e10d-cc8f-4b0f-af02-265aa34bbe35">41089</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Globes service,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>The Ministry of Health is expanding &quot;Returning to Life&quot;: vaccines for the entire population from the age of 16 starting tomorrow</title><secondary-title>Globes.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2021, February 3</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 15</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>3Model Common Sense’s position about COVID-19 vaccinations:At the beginning of the lockdown, we at the Model Common Sense called for protection focused on the population for which COVID-19 poses a high-risk. Due to their high risk, we recommend that this population get vaccinated as soon as possible. Of course, with full consent, without any coercion and inappropriate incentives…” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Model Common Sense</Author><Year>2021 January 14</Year><RecNum>41094</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">4</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41094</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615808363" guid="13d37ee6-a33c-4a65-a8d8-6bf0eaf1e049">41094</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Model Common Sense,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Position of the &apos;Model Common Sense&apos; for Corona vaccines</title></titles><number>2021 March 15</number><dates><year>2021 January 14</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> Coerced vaccination and imposing sanctions on those who do not get vaccinatedPromoting a law to impose sanctions on those who do not get vaccinated. The sanctions include prohibitions on sending children to school, going to workplaces, entering shopping malls, restaurants and concerts, air travel [The Sanctions Law]The Ministry of Justice (2021). ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Israel Ministry of Health</Author><Year>2021 February 16</Year><RecNum>41092</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">5</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41092</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615804906" guid="4ebc9ea9-0ab8-4f6d-9205-c22c7b526ba5">41092</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Israel Ministry of Health,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Law Memorandum for amending the Public Health Ordinance (Amendment No. …) (The New Coronavirus – Providing Information on Vaccinated People (Temporary Order), 5781-2021</title></titles><number>2021 March 15</number><dates><year>2021 February 16</year></dates><pub-location>Isreal Ministry of Justice</pub-location><urls><related-urls><url> Model Common Sense:The Model Common Sense supports a letter sent to the Federation of Local Authorities by Adv. Gil Bar-Tal, Chairman of Histadrut HaMaof, in which he wrote: “… notwithstanding the importance of getting a vaccine for COVID-19 – each person and their own reasons whether or not to get vaccinated. The decision to cause harm to wages or scope of position, or any damage, even implicit, is illegal, unconstitutional, unproportional and invalid… hurting employees is prohibited by law”. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Model Common Sense</Author><Year>2020 February 10</Year><RecNum>41093</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">6</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41093</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615805170" guid="507a2e3e-3268-4923-86aa-b648dd450480">41093</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Model Common Sense,</author></authors></contributors><titles></titles><number>2021 March 15</number><dates><year>2020 February 10</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> PECC: We disagree with the pressure placed on IDF soldiers to get vaccinated. COVID-19 poses a very low risk for soldiers, even lower than the chance of getting wounded in a training accident or a traffic accident on the weekend. And yet, the instruction to encourage vaccination turned into a system of exerting pressures and coercion on the soldiers, in the field units… to get vaccinated.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>The Coronavirus Public Emergency Council</Author><Year>2021 January 19</Year><RecNum>41095</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">7</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41095</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615808720" guid="35d15e3c-4521-471f-831b-80ad4482c5a0">41095</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>The Coronavirus Public Emergency Council,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Re: Indirect pressure and coercion of vaccines in the IDF</title></titles><number>2021 March 15</number><dates><year>2021 January 19</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> Green PassportPromoting Green Passport guideline granting entrance to public places to those who recovered from COVID-19 or were vaccinated. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Batson</Author><Year>2021 March 12</Year><RecNum>41096</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">8</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41096</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615808919" guid="5b6e9fd7-5740-4ee8-8ef7-5cd60168d9f0">41096</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Batson, A.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Green passport: who is eligible to receive and how is it issued?</title></titles><dates><year>2021 March 12</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 15</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>8 The Ministry of Health responded to the initiative of the chairman of the Constitutional Committee: Green Passport for people who are vaccinated, have recovered or were tested, including rapid tests. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>The Knesset</Author><Year>2021 January 4</Year><RecNum>41097</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">9</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41097</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615809409" guid="3e8eb140-2f9d-4694-b256-8a7d9632af84">41097</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>The Knesset,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>The Ministry of Health responds to the initiative of the Chairman of the Constitution Committee: a green passport for vaccinators, recovering patients and subjects in rapid examinations</title></titles><number>2021 March 15</number><dates><year>2021 January 4</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> the Green PassportDr. Shelli Segal of the Model Common Sense: “When I first heard about it I became very angry… giving people benefits and punishments depending on whether or not they got vaccinated. First of all it has no medical logic because this vaccine has not been proven to reduce infection and because there is no 100% in anything and whoever is vaccinated may not be 100% protected. That person may even infect others if he is exposed to the virus. I don’t know what to think and how you can discriminate against populations.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Model Common Sense</Author><Year>2021 January 26</Year><RecNum>41098</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">10</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41098</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615809556" guid="b6d1ee82-5f73-48cb-ba24-22a85d84f23e">41098</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Model Common Sense,</author></authors></contributors><titles></titles><number>2021 March 15</number><dates><year>2021 January 26</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> PECC: “…the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that “immunity certificates” will be used solely for epidemiological purposes, and rejected any other use for those certificates… the Green Passport is an unprecedented measure that is not in line with medical, social and ethical principles, including the individual confidentiality and autonomy, and it prejudices basic rights and is an opening to marking and classifying populations. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>The Coronavirus Public Emergency Council</Author><Year>2021 January 17</Year><RecNum>41099</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">11</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41099</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615812166" guid="6ca1f9ba-71ae-4991-a623-1a0bc145037d">41099</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>The Coronavirus Public Emergency Council,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Subject: The green passport - an incorrect use of the immunization certificate</title></titles><number>2021 March 15</number><dates><year>2021 January 17</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> Requiring teachers to get vaccinatedCabinet of experts advising Ministry of Health:“The team of experts, that consists of doctors and healthcare workers, discussed requiring teachers to get vaccinated.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Cohen</Author><Year>2021 February 3</Year><RecNum>41100</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">12</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41100</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615812406" guid="4c579bb0-ea00-458b-9c83-7a12233b0a3e">41100</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Cohen, M.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>The experts cabinet recommendation: only teachers who have been vaccinated for Corona will be able to teach frontally</title><secondary-title>Walla.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2021 February 3</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 15</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>12Model Common Sense: The American CDC declared that schools can be opened safely without vaccinating the teachers, but in Israel several cities decided to impose sanctions on teachers who choose, each for their own reasons, not to get vaccinated”. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Model Common Sense</Author><Year>2021 February 6</Year><RecNum>41102</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">13</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41102</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615812606" guid="bf3e243f-1823-4e57-abdf-83b2c908a2c4">41102</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Model Common Sense,</author></authors></contributors><titles></titles><number>2021 March 15</number><dates><year>2021 February 6</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> ADDIN EN.REFLIST 1.Doctors Only editorial board. The head of the public health services admitted: "there are no clear data on corona victims in the country". Doctors Only.2020 September 8.2.Qimron U, Shachar A, Levitt M, Gavish U. Israel's opportunity to emerge from the crisis. Haaretz.2020 July 20.3.Globes service. The Ministry of Health is expanding "Returning to Life": vaccines for the entire population from the age of 16 starting tomorrow. Globes.2021, February 3.4.Model Common Sense. Position of the 'Model Common Sense' for Corona vaccines. . Published 2021 January 14. Accessed 2021 March 15.5.Israel Ministry of Health. Law Memorandum for amending the Public Health Ordinance (Amendment No. …) (The New Coronavirus – Providing Information on Vaccinated People (Temporary Order), 5781-2021. . Published 2021 February 16. Accessed 2021 March 15.6.Model Common Sense. . Published 2020 February 10. Accessed 2021 March 15.7.The Coronavirus Public Emergency Council. Re: Indirect pressure and coercion of vaccines in the IDF. . Published 2021 January 19. Accessed 2021 March 15.8.Batson A. Green passport: who is eligible to receive and how is it issued? 2021 March 12.9.The Knesset. The Ministry of Health responds to the initiative of the Chairman of the Constitution Committee: a green passport for vaccinators, recovering patients and subjects in rapid examinations. . Published 2021 January 4. Accessed 2021 March 15.10.Model Common Sense. . Published 2021 January 26. Accessed 2021 March 15.11.The Coronavirus Public Emergency Council. Subject: The green passport - an incorrect use of the immunization certificate. . Published 2021 January 17. Accessed 2021 March 15.12.Cohen M. The experts cabinet recommendation: only teachers who have been vaccinated for Corona will be able to teach frontally. Walla.2021 February 3.13.Model Common Sense. . Published 2021 February 6. Accessed 2021 March 15.Supplementary 4: Some of The Personal Attacks by Members of The Coalition on Members of The Opposition Who Criticized Government PolicyIssue of ConflictCoalition quotes about the oppositionHow the opposition responds to the attackThe unfolding discourseAn attack by Bar Siman Tov, Director General of the Ministry of Health, against Yoram Lass who was one of the harshest critics of the government’s policy from the outset of the crisis. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Ashkenazi</Author><Year>2020 June 11</Year><RecNum>41059</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">1</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41059</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731265" guid="dbaa8174-032d-4527-9895-69359c582b84">41059</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Ashkenazi, S.</author><author>Weissberg, H.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Moshe Bar Siman Tov: &quot;Yoram Lass is a cartoon, admiration for him is a very bad thing&quot;</title><secondary-title>Globes.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 June 11</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>1Moshe Bar Siman Tov: “Could I have done something to prevent Yoram Lass from saying that COVID-19 is the flu with public relations? In my view, a lot of people were motivated by their need to see their own faces on screen. Some are caricatures, like Yoram Lass. Some are more serious people who still want to see their own faces on screen”. Prof. Lass responded: “If we remove hypocricy, and speak the truth, everyone knows that a normative society pays in human life to live a normal life… he and the government are directly responsible for economic, social and mental damage that is unprecedented in the new age. The damage is completely unnecessary.” Prof. Grotto was the Ministry of Health's Deputy Director General and attacked Prof. Rotstein, who served as the Director General at Hadassah Hospital because Rotstein criticized the Ministry of Health’s no-testing policy at a Knesset committee.PEVuZE5vdGU+PENpdGU+PEF1dGhvcj5ZYXN1ci1CZWl0IE9yPC9BdXRob3I+PFllYXI+MjAyMCBB

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ADDIN EN.CITE.DATA 2-4 “On behalf of Hadassah Hospital: “Prof. Grotto is attacking Hadassah and its Director General due to appropriate and justified decisions they made and as such were trailblazers throughout the war on COVID-19…”PEVuZE5vdGU+PENpdGU+PEF1dGhvcj5ZYXN1ci1CZWl0IE9yPC9BdXRob3I+PFllYXI+MjAyMCBB

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ADDIN EN.CITE.DATA 2-4Prof. Grotto and Prof. Rotstein join forces and establish a strategic team for fighting COVID-19. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Efrat</Author><Year>2020 July 16</Year><RecNum>41086</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">5</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41086</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615732514" guid="1cd27f3b-4026-4500-a653-b92bdf46085c">41086</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Efrat, B.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>&#xD;Uniting forces: Grotto and Rothstein form a strategic team to fight the Corona</title><secondary-title>Walla.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 July 16</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 14</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>5Prof. Eitan Friedman served as a member of the Model Common Sense and the PECC. In light of his criticism, his contract as the Director of the Oncogenetics Unit in the Genetics Institute at the Sheba Medical Center was not renewed. This is a department that he founded. Prof. Eitan Friedman: “… I did not foresee their decision to end the engagement with me. I did not receive the information that would have enabled me to prepare and to ask ‘why’. I don’t know why!! It’s a fact, I won’t be here on 1.3.2021” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Ulpan Shishi</Author><Year>2021 January 14</Year><RecNum>41087</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">6</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41087</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615732735" guid="7f9d7fde-9ae6-4a1c-9134-88cc65c88e66">41087</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Ulpan Shishi,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Why was Professor Eitan Friedman fired?</title></titles><number>2021 March 14</number><dates><year>2021 January 14</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url>“Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, for example, called experts, including heads of COVID-19 departments and emergency rooms, as well as myself – ‘COVID-19 deniers’ and ‘anti-vaxxers’. In other words, she chose to use deragotory terms against us, some of which have chilling connotations for the Jewish people, and this to diminish and belittle us instead of confronting our arguments on their merits. 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A petition to reinstate following dismissal:From the petition: Prof. Eitan Friedman was fired from Sheba… contrary to all reason, decency and integrity. He was fired just because he did not align with those who dictate policy. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Atzuma</Author><Year>2020 December 30</Year><RecNum>41048</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">8</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41048</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731264" guid="7f2f20ca-1c70-4a2e-966b-21b557c0c42a">41048</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Atzuma,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>To bring back Prof. Friedman</title></titles><number>2021 March 13</number><dates><year>2020 December 30</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url>. Barbash, former Director General of the Ministry of Health and CEO of Ichilov Medical Center attacks Dr. Amir Shahar and the petition, signed by 120 doctors, that discusses the criticism against the lockdown policy and the adoption of the Swedish model. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Even</Author><Year>2020 September, 7</Year><RecNum>41104</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">9</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41104</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615813549" guid="705d7756-c7da-478a-8c2d-89b2af1b7612">41104</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Even, Y.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>The director of the emergency room who calls for the adoption of the Swedish method - and Prof. Barbash&apos;s sharp answer</title><secondary-title>N12.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 September, 7</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 15</access-date></record></Cite><Cite><Author>Even</Author><Year>2020 September, 7</Year><RecNum>41103</RecNum><record><rec-number>41103</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615813462" guid="26557004-f4df-43de-93f9-b2d3324b7214">41103</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Even, Y.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>The director of the emergency room who calls for the adoption of the Swedish method - and Prof. Barbash&apos;s sharp answer</title><secondary-title>N12.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 September, 7</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 15</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>9An article about the petition:“A lockdown does not prevent mortality, it causes excess mortality” and called for adopting the Swedish model. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Doctors Only editorial board</Author><Year>2020 September 6</Year><RecNum>41105</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">10</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41105</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615815400" guid="7388075f-985c-4541-afaf-abfbf1936c54">41105</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Doctors Only editorial board,</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Dozens of doctors and experts from the academy petition: &quot;closure does not prevent mortality - it causes excessive mortality&quot;</title><secondary-title>Doctors Only,</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 September 6</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 15</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>10Prof. Barbash: “… full disclosure, I know Amir, we’re even friends. I think those statements are irresponsible…” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Even</Author><Year>2020 September, 7</Year><RecNum>41104</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">9</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41104</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615813549" guid="705d7756-c7da-478a-8c2d-89b2af1b7612">41104</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Even, Y.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>The director of the emergency room who calls for the adoption of the Swedish method - and Prof. Barbash&apos;s sharp answer</title><secondary-title>N12.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 September, 7</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 15</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>9Dr. Amir Shahar, director of the Emergency Medicine Department, Laniado Hospital and a member of the Model Common Sense and the PECC: “We are not buckling under the pressure… we know how to treat the seriously ill. The mortality is not unusual compared to other viral diseases, and the hysteria is totally unwarranted…” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Even</Author><Year>2020 September, 7</Year><RecNum>41104</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">9</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41104</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615813549" guid="705d7756-c7da-478a-8c2d-89b2af1b7612">41104</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Even, Y.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>The director of the emergency room who calls for the adoption of the Swedish method - and Prof. Barbash&apos;s sharp answer</title><secondary-title>N12.</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2020 September, 7</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 15</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>9Dr. Michal Haran, hematology and internal medicine expert, and senior lecturer at the Hebrew University School of Medicine – she wrote a position paper about the reservations and questions that come up in the FDA’s emergency approval process for the Pfizer vaccine. Following her criticism, she got letters from the Ministry of Health’s Investigative Committee on Misleading Advertising.A letter from the Investigative Committee on Misleading Advertising: “You are hereby requested to refrain from publications that are not based on supported data as acceptable in medicine, and in a manner that may mislead and even endanger the public.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Leitersdorf</Author><Year>2021 January 3</Year><RecNum>41047</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">11</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41047</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615731264" guid="9c083367-bcbc-4af3-8bef-42e662c83a34">41047</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Leitersdorf, I.</author><author>Hacco, E.</author></authors><secondary-authors><author>The Committee for the Examination of Public Misleading in the Publications of Health Products, Medical Technologies and the Medical Professions,</author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title>Dr. Michal Haran - Your publication dated 15.12.20 regarding &quot;position paper&quot; - Corona virus vaccines</title></titles><dates><year>2021 January 3</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> Ministry of Health</custom1><access-date>2021 March 13</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>11“… your argument according to which our letter to you amounts to “an attempt to silence and intimidate” is unfounded!“ ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Leitersdorf</Author><Year>2021 January 27</Year><RecNum>41106</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">12</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41106</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615817449" guid="fbc27d3b-349c-4191-8d7d-14ac4b92f6c2">41106</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Leitersdorf, I.</author><author>Hacco, E.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Your answer to the Ministry of Health in subject of your publication dated 06.12.20 regarding &quot;position paper&quot; - Corona virus vaccines (Refrence: your answer dated 14.1.21)</title></titles><number>2021 March 15</number><dates><year>2021 January 27</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> Dr. Michal Haran’s response to the committee’s letter:“… 13. The committee’s letter constitutes an attempt to silence a vital professional and public discourse that is related to exercising the basic right to life and health of every man and woman in the country… in all this I am joining many other doctors and scientists worldwide, whose opinion may be in the minority, but their voice is heard, and it is even important that it is heard. Thus, for example, I shall mention Dr. Peter Doshi of the University of Maryland and even the four FDA committee members who voted against emergency approval of the vaccine. ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Haran</Author><Year>2021 January 14</Year><RecNum>41107</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">13</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41107</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615817714" guid="ae764b00-6c38-4d75-a7db-245d2c83ff44">41107</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Haran, M.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Dr. Michal Haran&apos;s response to the committee&apos;s misleading silence letter dated 3.1.21</title></titles><number>2021 March 15</number><dates><year>2021 January 14</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> Dr. Rotem Inbar:“Lately, we are seeing many cases in which doctors or scientists who voice an opinion that opposes the dominant narrative are attacked, vilified, and threatened. Another doctor and senior researcher who is working day in day out to read protocols and studies is not even being given a stage to present her medical arguments to professional forums…” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Inbar</Author><Year>2021 January 1</Year><RecNum>41108</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">14</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41108</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615817931" guid="e7e42def-280e-4ea7-b9dd-8b0303b046b5">41108</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Inbar, R.</author></authors></contributors><titles></titles><number>2021 March 15</number><dates><year>2021 January 1</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> Dr. Alroy-Preis, who served as Head of Public Health in the Health Ministry, attacked Prof. Hagai Levine, who served as the Chairman of the Association of Public Health Doctors and as a member of the Magen Israel professional cabinet after he participated in the movie What if the whole world is wrong? that showcased the voices of experts from the opposition. And Hagai Levine resigned from his role in the Magen Israel professional cabinet and as Chairman of the Association of Public Health Doctors. Dr. Alroy-Preis about Prof. Hagai Levine in a WhatsApp group: “I suggest the association examine itself… especially you, Hagai, as chairman of the organization…” And when high-ranking people in the Association of Public Health Doctors, in the midst of a pandemic that is threatening all of us, participate in a COVID-19 deniers and anti-vaxxers’ film, the sole purpose of which is to undermine the public trust, what needs to be done is to stop and go do some deep soul searching.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Yanko</Author><Year>2021 January 10</Year><RecNum>41109</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">15</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41109</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615818455" guid="b69a5dde-b01f-4e46-879d-171fcbbce9e8">41109</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Newspaper Article">23</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Yanko, A.</author></authors></contributors><titles><title>The confrontation between Dr. Alroy-Preis and the consultant who left for politics: &quot;offends public trust&quot;</title><secondary-title>YNET</secondary-title></titles><dates><year>2021 January 10</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> March 15</access-date></record></Cite></EndNote>15Prof. Hagai Levine: “One of the most unfortunate things about the COVID-19 crisis is that there are some people who have lost the ability to listen to different opinions…”“The Association and myself are responsible for the things we say, consistently we are not responsible for what others say, even if it is in the same movie.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Levine</Author><Year>2021 January 9</Year><RecNum>41110</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">16</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41110</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615818679" guid="7237f2d0-21cb-4a8e-93d8-8cf6965296fe">41110</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Levine, H.</author></authors></contributors><titles></titles><number>2021 March 15</number><dates><year>2021 January 9</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url>. Hagai Levine announced that he is stepping down as member of the Magen Israel’s national professional cabinet and as Chairman of the Association of Public Health Doctors in Israel.Four doctors who participated in Orly and Guy’s movie 21.1.2021: And what if the whole world is wrong filed a defamation suit against Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis. And they claimed that within a WhatsApp group that has over 250 doctors she, inter alia, called them - even if not by name – COVID-19 deniers and anti-vaxxers.” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Machatzlakorona</Author><Year>2021 January 21</Year><RecNum>41111</RecNum><DisplayText><style face="superscript">17</style></DisplayText><record><rec-number>41111</rec-number><foreign-keys><key app="EN" db-id="2tvfrr9t2s25wgeaf09pfdx6202vwrpe5xae" timestamp="1615819031" guid="0137cf2f-609e-4d5d-8a79-6ad17e31c80b">41111</key></foreign-keys><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Machatzlakorona, </author></authors></contributors><titles><title>Adv. Eyal Rozovsky (20.1.21), publication of defamation and injurious falsehood – demanding an apology and publishing a clarification – letter before action</title></titles><number>2021 March 15</number><dates><year>2021 January 21</year></dates><urls><related-urls><url> ADDIN EN.REFLIST 1.Ashkenazi S, Weissberg H. 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Accessed 2021 March 15.Supplementary Table S5: Mapping topics according to the public’s positions—in support of government policies (coalition), in opposition to them (opposition), and mixed positionsCoalition??Total SamplingCould herd immunity been achieved naturally without the intervention of the Pfizer vaccine?Could not have been achieved 67.6%Could have been achieved 17.0%I don't know15.4%Total100.0%515??Total SamplingCould herd immunity been achieved naturally without the intervention of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines?Average1.8??Total SamplingWhile a campaign to vaccinate the public is underway and many in the public are getting vaccinated, was it justified or not to impose a third lockdown which was characterized by opening the schools and by less restrictive enforcement? Total justified61.5%Total unjustified31.6%I don't know6.9%Total100.0%514??Total SamplingWhile an operation to vaccinate the public is underway and many in the public are getting vaccinated was it justified or not to impose a third lockdown – the lockdown that was characterized by opening the schools and by less restrictive enforcement?Average2.1??Total SamplingWas the instruction that no close family member come in contact with elderly people justified or unjustified? Total justified81.7%Total unjustified15.5%I don't know2.8%Total100.0%515??Total SamplingWas the instruction that no close family member come in contract with elderly people justified or unjustified?Average1.8??Total SamplingWhich of the following statements is most appropriate?Vaccination should not be required or rewarded20.9%Vaccination should not be required but those who do get the vaccine should be rewarded38.5%Citizens must be required to get vaccinated, but not rewarded for it9.5%Citizens must be required to get vaccinated and rewarded for it26.3%I don't know4.8%Total100.0%515??Total SamplingI believe the vaccine will protect me from being infected with COVID-19Total true72.1%Total untrue17.8%I don't know10.1%Total100.0%515??Total SamplingI believe the vaccine will protect me from being infected with COVID-19Average1.9??Total SamplingI do not have sufficient information about the COVID-19 vaccine to make an informed decision whether or not to get vaccinatedUntrue57.0%TRUE37.2%I don't know5.8%Total100.0%515??Total SamplingI do not have sufficient information about the COVID-19 vaccine to make an informed decision whether or not to get vaccinatedAverage2.2??Total SamplingIt is important that people over 65 and people in at-risk groups get vaccinated. Total true85.2%Total untrue9.5%I don't know5.3%Total100.0%515??Total SamplingIt is important that people over 65 and people in at-risk groups get vaccinated. Average1.5??Total SamplingTo what extent do you believe that you will be able to return to your normal life routine after getting two doses of the vaccine?Total don't believe24.0%Total believe64.7%I don't know11.3%Total100.0%515??Total SamplingTo what extent do you believe you will be able to return to your normal life routine after getting the two doses of the vaccine?Average2.1Opposition??The total samplingIs it your impression that children are suffering or not suffering during the period in which their schools are closed?Total not suffering10.9%Total suffering86.7%I don't know2.5%Total100.0%515??The total samplingChildren are suffering greatly during the period in which their schools are closedAverage3.4??The total samplingThe damage to the economy due to the lockdowns and restrictions harms the country more than the COVID-19 virus would damage it.Total don't agree31.8%Total agree63.8%I don't know4.4%Total100.0%515??The total samplingThe damage to the economy due to the lockdowns and restrictions harms the country more than the COVID-19 virus would damage it.Average2.9??The total samplingWhat is more damaging to the mental health of the country's citizens - the restrictions and lockdowns or the COVID-19 virus had there been no restrictions and lockdowns?COVID-19 virus33.6%Restrictions and lockdowns63.2%I don't know3.3%Total100.0%515The total samplingThe restrictions and lockdowns damage the mental health of the country's citizens more than the COVID-19 virus would have hurt them.Average2.8??The total samplingIs it true or untrue that as long as the COVID-19 Committee's protocols are privileged for 30 years it is difficult for me to trust the government?Total untrue30.9%Total true59.7%I don't know9.3%Total100.0%515??The total samplingIs it true or untrue that as long as the COVID-19 Committee's protocols are privileged for 30 years it is difficult for me to trust the government?Average2.8??The total samplingIs it your impression that the government is presenting to the public or not presenting to the public all the disadvantages of the vaccines?Total presenting disadvantages28.2%Total not presenting disadvantages60.0%I don't know11.8%Total100.0%515??The total samplingIs it your impression that the government is presenting the public or not presenting the public all the disadvantages of the vaccines?Average3.0??The total samplingAre you receiving or not receiving completely transparent information from the Ministry of Health?Total transparent information to a great extent / a very great extent19.4%Total transparent information to a medium extent / a very low extent14.4%I don't know9.2%Total100.0%515??The total samplingAre you receiving or not receiving completely transparent information from the Ministry of Health?Average2.9?????Mixed positions?Total SamplingThe damage to the people’s sense of freedom damages Israeli society more than the Coronavirus would have damaged it.Total don't agree44.6%Total agree50.8%I don't know4.5%Total100.0%515??Total SamplingThe damage to the people’s sense of freedom damages Israeli society more than the Coronavirus would have damaged it.Average2.6??Total SamplingIn the context of COVID-19 information and recommendations – who do you believe more? The doctors who are on the committees advising the Ministry of Health about COVID-19 21.8%The doctors who are not advising the Ministry of Health about COVID-1916.1%The doctors in both groups to the same extent41.1%No one10.9%I don't know10.2%Total100.0%515??Total SamplingIn the context of COVID-19 information and recommendations – who do you believe more?Average2.5??Total SamplingAt first it was hard for me to accept the positions of experts who criticized the Ministry of Health’s strict policy and as time goes by, I am accepting their positionsTotal untrue47.3%Total true43.8%I don't know8.9%Total100.0%515??Total SamplingAt first it was hard for me to accept the positions of experts who criticized the Ministry of Health’s strict policy and as time goes by, I am accepting their positionsAverage2.4??Total SamplingPeople in the health system who criticize the system or express disagreement with the system are jeopardizing their careerTotal untrue37.8%Total true47.4%I don't know14.8%Total100.0%515??Total SamplingPeople in the health system who criticize the system or express disagreement with the system are jeopardizing their careerAverage2.6??Total SamplingThe effects of the vaccine have not been tested over a long period of time and therefore the vaccination operation in Israel is an experiment in humans. Total untrue43.5%Total true50.4%I don't know6.1%Total100.0%515??Total SamplingThe effects of the vaccine have not been tested over a long period of time and therefore the vaccination operation in Israel is an experiment in humans. Average2.6??Total SamplingYoung people should put off getting the vaccine until they see how it effects people worldwide. Total untrue54.3%Total true39.2%I don't know6.5%Total100.0%515??Total SamplingYoung people should put off getting the vaccine until they see how it effects people worldwide.Average2.3??Total SamplingIn your opinion what are the methods through which the Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Health are communicating the COVID-19 crisis to the public (you may choose more than one answer)? Intimidation methods53.2%Methods of encouraging social solidarity33.3%Methods of providing complete transparency of the information about the COVID-19 crisis24.2%Methods that originate from understanding the public sentiment (empathy)19.4%I don't know11.1%Total141.2%515??Total SamplingShould the restrictions on meeting elderly people have been imposed or should each elderly person been allowed to decide for themselves whether or not they want to meet family members? Total should have been prohibited 54.3%Total should have been allowed41.6%No opinion4.0%Total100.0%515??Total SamplingShould the restrictions on meeting elderly people have been imposed or should each elderly person been allowed to decide for themselves whether or not they want to meet family members? Average2.3 ................
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