HAIFA, Israel—The Israeli Ministry of Health (MoH) is refusing to provide complete mortality data for the period of the COVID-19 pandemic despite a court order.
A court ordered the agency in September to provide all-cause mortality data by Nov. 15 following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by David Shuldman, an Israeli citizen.
The MoH did provide Shuldman with mortality data on Nov. 13. But the dataset was incomplete and did not satisfy the original request because it didn’t include segmentation by age group, leaving the data unusable for determining excess mortality, according to Shuldman.
Shuldman, a systems analyst and an economist, filed a new administrative appeal on Dec. 14 asking the court to order the ministry to provide the data as requested….