“Israel became the first country Friday to have provided the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine to 10 percent of its population,” the Times of Israel reports.
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Quote of the Day
“The end result is essentially about the same. I don’t think any of the compromises have in any way fundamentally altered the essence of what I put in the bill…
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