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Daily Archives: April 2, 2020

Miriam and Mickey Polevoy celebrating a significantly smaller wedding in Jerusalem due to restrictions from the coronavirus pandemic. Credit: Avigail Tresgallo Photography.

Saying ‘I Do’ when the world keeps issuing ‘Don’t’s

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Despite the expanding limitations on events and gatherings in the context of the rising global coronavirus pandemic, Jewish couples in Israel are finding innovative ways to continue with their wedding plans. Jewish Israeli couples...
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Living a plague

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In a little more than a week, we will seclude ourselves during the holiday of Pesach. The fortunate ones among us will share the seder table with close family members; those who habitually share...
A man prays at the almost empty Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site in the Old City of Jerusalem, March 27, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Pandemic prompts prayer at home, online through America, according to latest Pew study

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On a recent Wednesday morning, East Coast time, thousands of Orthodox Jews stopped what they were doing to recite a series of psalms all at the same time. They prayed from their homes in Jerusalem,...
Israel's Magen David Adom national emergency service drive-through complex in Ashdod allows people to get tested while still sitting in their cars, April 1, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

For Israel, recognizing another enemy is second nature

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Among the world’s democracies fighting the coronavirus, Israel has so far been by far the most successful. With a population of about 8.6 million, it had recorded at time of writing 33 deaths from COVID-19....
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Contemplating life after the coronavirus

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What are your plans? In my youth, that was the question that a beloved uncle would always ask the younger members of the family. The only problem was that his heavy German accent would...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin addresses a largely empty Knesset on the occasion of the swearing-in of the 23rd Knesset. Present is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein and Supreme Court president Esther Hayut on March 16, 2020. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

Israel’s constitutional crisis has been postponed, not resolved

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After years of leftists crying wolf about democracy being endangered, Israel finally experienced a real constitutional crisis last week. That crisis was temporarily frozen by the decision to form a unity government, but it...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yaakov Litzman hold a video conference at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem with European leaders to discuss governments' response to the coronavirus pandemic, on March 9, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Netanyahu, senior officials quarantined after Israel’s health minister tests positive for coronavirus

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mossad intelligence agency chief Yossi Cohen, National Security Council head Meir Ben-Shabbat, Health Ministry director general Moshe Bar Siman-Tov, head of Public Health Services Sigal Sadetsky and head of...
Magen David Adom medical workers collect samples for coronavirus testing at a drive-through testing site at the entrance to the eastern Jerusalem village of Jabel Mukaber on April 2, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Medical device company’s Israel division to provide ventilator blueprints for free

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The Israel division of the medical-device company Medtronic will provide the blueprints for its ventilators to companies seeking to manufacture them, free of charge. Medtronic’s Israel division CEO Yaron Yitzhari made the announcement to Arutz Sheva on Wednesday. “Our goal...
Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog speaks during the Israel Social Cohesion Summit in Airport City on Nov. 5, 2019. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Jewish Agency announces emergency fund for nonprofits hit hard by coronavirus

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The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ogen–Social Loan Fund, a not-for-profit lending fund, are launching an emergency fund for nonprofits to assist organizations suffering financially from the coronavirus crisis, the organizations said in...
A medical team on duty at the new biological emergency unit dedicated to COVID-19 at Shaarei Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on March 31, 2020. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Hospitals: Patients afraid of coronavirus are skipping treatment and dying

Fear of contracting coronavirus is causing many Israelis to avoid seeking medical treatment, which is resulting in preventable deaths, according to the country’s hospitals. At Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, a man died of...