Omicron variant, immediate response in Israel thanks to the lesson of the “Omega scenario”

TEL AVIV – They called it Omega, the last letter available, to symbolize the doomsday scenario. “We are preparing for a variant that does not yet exist, capable of circumventing vaccines“, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced on 3 October, anticipating the largest national exercise, formulated as a war game, “an unprecedented event” .