With its turbo vaccination campaign and its highly digitized health system, Israel has become something of the world's corona test laboratory.
Researchers are fascinated by every number that is reported from the small country in the Middle East.
Now, six weeks after the vaccination started, the first study results are giving hope: The infection rate in the group of people over 60 has halved.
And the number of serious illnesses has fallen by a third.
A second positive finding concerns the effectiveness of the vaccine.