19-year-old Nechemia (Chemi) Trachtenberg, who until last year lived in Yerushalayim, has been actively vaccinating people in the capital city for the past two months. As part of his work with Kuppat Cholim (HMO) Meuchedet, located on Chaggai Street, Chemi spends his days vaccinating people, and vaccinates between 200-300 people per day. During his free time, Chemi is a volunteer with United Hatzalah and responds to medical emergencies in his neighborhood. Chemi is one of close to 500 volunteers from the organization who have stepped up and taken part in the national mission to vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as possible. Chemi said that being a part of this widespread operation “makes me feel like I have a shlichus for Am Yisroel,” and encouraged everyone to come and get vaccinated. “There are all sorts of rumors and fabricated stories about the vaccinations. I have vaccinated thousands of people already. Each day I vaccinate between 200-300 people, and they are always fine. Even if there are a few side-effects such as fevers, this is natural and occurs with other vaccinations as well. We are vaccinating people at an incredibly fast pace, and in an orderly and documented fashion. It is really nice to see how everyone is coming to get their vaccines.” Trachtenberg added how happy and inspired he feels to have merited to vaccinate numerous Admorim and other great rabbonim. “I was very emotional when I had the opportunity to vaccinate them.” While Trachtenberg also got to vaccinate some pop-culture celebrities he managed to take some selfies with them, but he didn’t take any with the Admorim. “I didn’t take selfies with the Admorim because that is not respectful,” Trachtenberg added that the Admorim get vaccinated in a separate room in order to protect their privacy. “I look at how the vaccine operations are being run in other countries around the world, and how it is being done in Israel and I am very impressed. The health system in Israel is terrific and is handling this beautifully. Obviously, every death as a result of this disease pains us, but these deaths can be prevented if everyone follows the rules and if we all get vaccinated.” In two months’ time, Trachtenberg is set to enlist in the IDF, but until then, he will be vaccinating the people of Israel at his HMO and responding to medical emergencies with United Hatzalah. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

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