חוק לתיקון פקודת בריאות העם (מס' 36 – הוראת שעה – נגיף הקורונה החדש), התשפ"א–2021Law for the Amendment of the Public Health Ordinance (No. 36 – temporary provision – novel coronavirus), 2021 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

In order to encourage the public to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, the Law allows the Director General of the Ministry of Health to transfer information including the name, identification number, address and telephone number of a person who is eligible to be vaccinated under the Ministry of Health's guidelines but has not yet received the first or second dose, to a local authority employee appointed for this purpose - regarding residents of that authority, to the Director General of the Ministry of Education - regarding persons employed at an institution conducting educational activity under the responsibility of the Ministry of Education, and - regarding persons employed at a welfare institution. The information will be provided subject to the recipient proving, by submitting a request including a plan detailing planned actions to encourage vaccination, that they need the information to assist the Ministry of Health in encouraging vaccination, and that they have an advantage in carrying out encouragement activities compared to the Ministry of Health and other entities involved in vaccinations. The Law restricts the use of the information to authorized officeholders who have signed a confidentiality undertaking, and establishes provisions regarding the retention, deletion, and confidentiality of the information. The information will be used to carry out actions to encourage vaccination in accordance with guidelines set by the Director General of the Ministry of Health, and these actions shall not include denial of services, exercise of authority, or infringement of rights as a resident or employee, and shall not be carried out against a person by someone who knows them personally or by a member of the local authority council in which they reside. It is further stipulated that contact to encourage vaccination of a minor shall be made only to the minor's guardian. The Law specifies that the Director General's guidelines shall include, in addition to provisions regarding the manner of submitting requests, methods of transferring, retaining, using and deleting the information, also provisions regarding the types of actions that may be taken to encourage vaccination beyond contacting a person, as well as provisions regarding the deletion of information about a person who requested, during a vaccination encouragement activity, that their information be deleted, and the cessation of actions regarding a person who requested that such actions towards them cease, and in addition, provisions regarding the types of officeholders who may be authorized to carry out the actions and their number. The Law also authorizes the Ministry of Health to request such information from a medical institution or public body for the purpose of encouraging vaccination or issuing a vaccination certificate.

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