Yesha Council head, PA candidate issue joint call to vaccinate PA residents

• Date: 15 March 2021
• Author: Arutz Sheva Staff
• Published date: 15 March 2021

At the meeting, which was held at the offices of the Jordan Valley Regional Council, representatives of the Yesha Council and Arif Masad discussed the common lives of the Jewish and Arab residents of Judea and Samaria and the importance of the State of Israel's control in the region.

At the center of the discussion was the importance of the immunization of the Palestinian Arab population in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley, which comes into daily contact with the Israeli population in the area.

After the Yesha Council acted in recent weeks to vaccinate Palestinian Arabs workers working in Israel and after most of the population of the State of Israel has been vaccinated, a joint call came out of the meeting to vaccinate the entire Palestinian Arab population in Judea and Samaria while offsetting the cost of the vaccinations from the funds which Israel provides to the Palestinian Authority.

Yesha Council Chairman David Elhayani told Masad, "Mohammad, I'm glad you came to visit the Jordan Valley today. I was happy to meet you. You bring a new position, a new...