Tag: Coronavirus
Israel’s COVID czar named new Health Ministry director
Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz on Monday named National Coronavirus Project Coordinator Professor Nachman Ash as the director-general of the Health Ministry.
The nomination follows the resignation of current Health Ministry chief, Prof. Hezi Levi, who is slated...
One Table opens more in-person Shabbat dinners for young Jewish adults
One Table, an organization that empowers those in their 20s and 30s to envision new rituals and build community through Shabbat dinner, is reopening with indoor dinners of up to 10 people as it...
Pfizer vaccine doesn’t affect fertility, study shows
Widespread rumors that mRNA vaccines negatively impact fertility are unfounded, according to new research from the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center.
The team studied 36 couples undergoing a second round...
This July Fourth? It’s a freedom bonanza!
After a year-and-a-half of hunkering down, we are free at last—at least, for the most part. With the advent of vaccines, we welcome back hugs and backslapping, kids running amok with their grandparents, maybe...
Bennett says for time being, Israelis should avoid non-essential travel abroad
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has asked Israeli citizens this week to avoid non-essential travel overseas in light of the Delta variant of the coronavirus infection rates.
Speaking on Tuesday from Ben-Gurion International Airport, Bennett said...
Israel using vaccines rejected by Palestinian Authority
Israeli Health Ministry Director General Hezi Levi said on Monday that Israel was using the COVID-19 vaccines that the Palestinian Authority had rejected.
The vaccines Israel had planned to send to the P.A. are being used “right...
Wary of new outbreak, Israel to increase COVID screening at Ben-Gurion Airport
Israel will significantly increase COVID-19 screening at Ben-Gurion International Airport amid fears of the highly contagious Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus, first detected in India.
An Israeli Health Ministry committee has warned the government...
Israeli Health Ministry issues quarantine after COVID-19 confirmed at indoor concert
Israel’s Health Ministry on Sunday called on all attendees of an indoor concert in the northern Israeli city of Beit She’an on June 17 to immediately enter quarantine and get tested for COVID-19, after...
Israel begins delivery of million-plus doses of Pfizer vaccine to Palestinians
Israel began its delivery of more than 1 million doses of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine to the Palestinian Authority on Friday that are set to expire soon.
“An agreement was reached today, according to which...
North American immigration to Israel spikes after ‘year of COVID’
Some 5,000 new immigrants from the United States and Canada are scheduled to immigrate to Israel by the end of 2021, according to new data published by the Nefesh B’Nefesh organization in conjunction with...