According to this NPR article on 8/20 "The country jumped out ahead of all other countries on vaccines, and 78% of eligible Israelis over 12 years old are vaccinated.
But Israel has a young population, with many under the eligible age for vaccination, and about 1.1 million eligible Israelis, largely between the ages of 12 and 20, have declined to take even one dose of the vaccine.
That means only 58% of Israel's total citizenry is fully vaccinated. Experts say that's not nearly high enough."
I'm thinking the case rates for vaccinated people are higher than unvaccinated because a larger percentage of the population is vaccinated and suffering a lot of breakthrough vaccinations. That sucks, but what really matters is the hospitalization and death rate between the two groups. Also from that article:
"The good news is that among Israel's serious infections on Thursday of this week, according to Health Ministry data, the rate of serious cases among unvaccinated people over age 60 (178.7 per 100,000) was nine times more than the rate among fully vaccinated people of the same age category, and the rate of serious cases among unvaccinated people in the under-60 crowd (3.2 per 100,000) was a little more than double the rate among vaccinated people in that age bracket."
If natural immunization works well, that's great. Choosing to become immune by getting COVID is stupid IMO. The hospitalization rate is overwhelming our capacity to handle it, and at the expense of those who need hospitals for non-COVID reasons.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628471/highly-vaccinated-israel-is-seeing-a-dramatic-surge-in-new-covid-cases-heres-why