BIG NEWS: Israeli town becomes first city in the world to vaccinate all residents ages 60+!

Beit El, a Jewish town in Judea & Samaria (part of the West Bank), is frequently a target of the anti-Semitic Boycott Israel movement.

By Nosson Shulman: Licensed Tour Guide of VIP Israel Tours & Authentic Virtual Tours (click here to check out his free trailer videos)

Beit El, a modern town with a rich biblical past, has become the world’s first city to successfully vaccinate its entire elderly population!  Founded in 1977 over the Greenline (West Bank) this charming town has grown to around 6500 people.

Beit El municipal council official Shai Alon said, “It is impossible not to get excited after the difficult year we all went through.  The expectation of returning to a normal and regular life has accompanied us for many months, and now we can see the beginning of the end of the corona nightmare.”

In other Beit El news, the government is set to approve this week the building of 800 new homes. While urban planning, construction and building permits elsewhere in the world are rarely newsworthy, as Beit El is in Judea & Samaria (West Bank) any time a new unit is approved, it makes significant world news.  Already France has condemned the announcement, calling on Israel to stop building more units in their Biblical Heartland.  They have suggested (without evidence) that settlements are an impediment to the peace process, though Israel’s recent Peace treaties with the UAE, Bahrain, the Sudan and Morocco, would suggest otherwise.  The European Union by law forbids products made in settlements like Beit El to be labeled as “Made in Israel” when sold in European stores, however, some member countries do not enforce it.

To learn more about Beit El’s rich biblical history, click here!

Nosson Shulman is a journalist and Licensed Tour Guide in Israel specializing in Biblical tours. To allow tourists to experience Israel during the Corona era, he created the new hit Israel tour video series which brings Israel to the home of viewers by simulating actual tours. To check out his free sneak preview tour videos, click here.