Despite vaccinating more than half of the population, outpacing other countries, Israel still recorded 1,400 Covid-19 deaths in January.

Israel leads the world vaccination race, with more than 20% of the population fully vaccinated with the Covid-19 vaccine and 37% receiving at least one shot.

The Middle East country begins its immunization campaign by prioritizing the oldest citizens and those with serious underlying medical conditions.

"Vaccination is a very effective measure," said Professor Eran Segal at the Weizmann Research Institute in Israel, said.

Israel should be celebrating, but in reality, the country has not escaped the "nightmare" with the epidemic in January is still devastating.

Last week, Maccabi, one of four health protection organizations in Israel, said that out of 163,000 people fully vaccinated with two doses of Covid-19 vaccine, 92% do not get the virus after 10 days.

The hospital system in Israel is now overflowing with younger people who have not yet been vaccinated with Covid-19.

Israel's struggles with Covid-19 is not due to the unsuccessful vaccination campaign, but because the majority of the country's population refuses to comply with restrictions to prevent the spread of the virus, still holds practice events.

In theory, Israel has been placed under a blockade for the past three weeks and is expected to end by the end of this week, but the people's sense of execution is judged to be poor.

The main reason is believed to be that the majority of the Orthodox Jewish community does not accept preventive measures unless they get approval from the high clergy.

On the morning of January 31, despite the strict prohibition of crowdsourcing, about 10,000 orthodox Jews in Israel still attended the funeral of cleric Meshulam Soloveitchik, who the media reported was infected with the CoV.

In addition, the rise of the pandemic is partly due to new strains of COV strains in the UK and South Africa.

Despite the despair of Israelis stuck abroad, Prime Minister Netanyahu is determined to deal with the threat from outside.

As a result, Israel will probably eventually face challenges that cannot be solved by injections alone.