Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality Partners With Restaurant & Nightlife Associations To Encourage The City's Young Population To Get Vaccinated
* Mobile vaccination unit located at Dizengoff Square * Free drink for vaccine recipients
Tel Aviv-Yafo, February 17 – Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality is again expanding its COVID-19 vaccination campaign – by encouraging the city's young population to receive vaccinations.
To boost vaccinations among young city residents, and following the success of temporary vaccination sites in Jaffa and Kiryat Shalom, the municipality will operate a mobile vaccination unit tomorrow next to Jenia Bar at Dizengoff Square (map). The initiative is held in partnership with several restaurant and nightlife associations.
The mobile vaccination unit of Magen David Adom will be in operation tomorrow (Thursday), February 18, next to Jenia Bar (13 Ben Ami St.) from 6 p.m. – midnight. Vaccines will be available to members of all healthcare providers, without an appointment and free of charge. Vaccines are limited to first dose recipients only.
Vaccinees who show proof of vaccination and a DigiTel Resident Card, or register for DigiTel at the vaccination site, will receive a voucher for a free drink at the bar.
Members of the press are invited to visit the vaccination site from 6 p.m., in coordination with Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality – please contact Eytan Halon (Head of International Press) via email ([email protected]) or WhatsApp on 058-428-0145.
Maya Nouri, Tel Aviv City Council member and holder of the young residents portfolio: "If the young won't come to be vaccinated, the vaccines will come to them. I call on all the young adults – even if you do not have the energy, time or desire to be vaccinated – come, take responsibility and vaccinate yourselves. This is the only way to return to normal and the exciting Tel Aviv life that we all love so much."
Shai Berman, CEO of the Israel Restaurant and Bar Association: "Vaccinations are the only way to return our livelihood, health and – above all – our freedom. Come to be vaccinated – the chaser is on the house."
Tomer Moore, CEO of Restaurateurs Stronger Together Association: "The restaurants, cafes and bars have been closed for almost a year. As a significant part of daily life and culinary culture in the city, we greatly feel their absence. We all want to return to normal life. The more that we are vaccinated, the more we will be able to return to normal and restore the beating heart of the city to action – and it starts with the employees, business owners and customers. The normal is that we all must go to get vaccinated!"
Shlomi Dayan, chairman of the Israeli Bar and Nightclub Association: Today, especially after seeing the positive impact of the vaccinations, everyone understands that the fastest and safest way to return to pre-coronavirus life, to enjoy bars and dance in nightclubs is simple. All that is necessary is to go and be vaccinated. We thank Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality for the important campaign that provides us with hope that the return to normal is closer than ever. L'chaim!"
Imri Kalmann and Hila Formosa-Rafael, Nightlife Association (Bars and Clubs Division): "We support the municipality's initiative to make vaccines accessible to the party going crowd. This is our opportunity to return to the normal life that we love so much. We are waiting for the moment when we can be happy and make others happy with another chaser or two - we have missed it."
Tamir Barelko, restaurateur and founder of the Facebook movement "It Won’t Be Fine": "This is the real, and likely only, solution to return quickly to normal – to culture and leisure, concerts, restaurants, friends and families and festivals. Come to be vaccinated!"
The municipality and Ichilov Hospital have been operating a huge vaccination center in Rabin Square recent weeks, and a vaccination center for foreign nationals that opened last week in Neve Shaanan.
In addition to the vaccination centers, the municipality is also operating a COVID-19 testing site in partnership with Home Front Command and assisting over 1,500 test recipients per day. Additional testing sites are in operation across the city.
Ahead of the weekend, the municipality plans to operate additional vaccination sites across the city. Details will be published soon.
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