By Vivian Bercovici

Vivian Bercovici served as Canada's Ambassador to Israel 2014-16. A former Toronto lawyer, she resides most of the year in Tel Aviv where she is engaged in business consulting, as a columnist for several media in Israel, the U.S. and Canada. She is an active public speaker in both English and Hebrew, which she speaks fluently. And she revels in what passes for "winter" in Israel.

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It's not a partisan issue. Our health-care system needs a radical rethink

For more than 20 years now, the Israeli health care system has been fully digitized. That means all your health information is stored digitally and whenever you present at a doctor’s office, the hospital, or an after-hours clinic, the staff have instant access to your full medical history.

Vivian Bercovici - August 4, 2021

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Vivian Bercovici: Israel and Canada made different bets on vaccines. It shows

Yes, Israel is geographically smaller than Canada. But that is not why the vaccine drive has been so successful here and quite the opposite there.

Vivian Bercovici - June 18, 2021