jerusalem israeli prime minister naftali bennett says people are rushing to get a third vaccine shot as protection from the surging delta variant of the coronavirusbennett pointed to government statistics on sunday showing that more than 420000 israelis older than 60 have received a booster shot more than a third of the total targeted population bennett said the number is expected to grow to half a million people by the end of the daythe prime minister spoke after a weekly cabinet meeting israel is seeing a rising number of people hospitalized with covid19 almost all of them infected with the highly contagious delta variant the government has reinstituted its mask mandate for indoor settings and is weighing more restrictionsisrael became a world leader in vaccinating against the virus during its initial public campaign about 54 million of the countrys 93 million people have received two vaccine dosesthe world health organization in recent days called for a moratorium on administering booster shots to help preserve supplies so people in poorer countries can get their first doses