Bnei Brak (it’s also spelled Bnei Beraq) is a city in Israel,
east of Tel Aviv. Although it has been particularly hard-hit by the current
pandemic, members of this ultra-Orthodox community have been reluctant to take
advantage of the vaccines meant to fight it. According to Israel’s Health
Ministry, only 17% of Bnei Brak’s residents had received the first of two doses.
So municipal leaders decided to throw a party. All four of the city’s health
providers opened their doors from 7:00 p.m. to midnight last Thursday. They enlisted
the help of the city’s at-risk youth to ladle out big bowls of cholent (a hearty
Jewish meat-and-bean stew), rolls, and drinks to anyone willing to be
vaccinated. They called their creative immunization drive, “Green Night,”
because they hope increasing the city’s immunity will allow it to become a “green
zone” where life can begin to return to normal.
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