Tag: Coronavirus
Israeli Health Ministry: Only 1,500 ventilators; another 2,864 ones expected
At present, Israel has only 1,500 ventilators in stock that are “usable and available,” Israeli Health Ministry director general Moshe Bar Siman Tov said on Thursday, contradicting a report presented to the country’s parliament...
Former Soviet prisoner Natan Sharansky offers five tips for coping under quarantine
Human-rights activist, world-famous refusenik and former chairman of the Jewish Agency Natan Sharansky shared some pointers to help people get through coronavirus-related quarantine in a video released on Monday.
“I have some experience of spending time in...
Hamas seeks to prevent spread of virus in Gaza, while threatening to hold Israel...
The Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip is making significant efforts to prevent a full-scale outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19), while also threatening to hold Israel “responsible” if the virus does begin to spread....
Flight slated to bring 200 Israelis in Hungary home and return foreign nationals
A special flight bringing 200 Israelis stranded in Hungary back to Israel is scheduled to depart from the Hungarian capital of Budapest on Thursday.
The Israelis have been unable to leave Hungary since the country...
With Knesset oversight in place, High Court greenlights COVID-19 surveillance
Israel’s High Court of Justice on Tuesday lifted an injunction barring its internal security agency, the Shin Bet, from using digital mass-surveillance technology to track Israelis’ locations as part of the country’s efforts to stem the...
Holocaust survivor who delivered US House prayer dies of coronavirus at 91
A rabbi who survived World War II and the Holocaust and in January delivered the opening prayer in the U.S. House of Representatives died on Tuesday—14 days after his 91st birthday—after being hospitalized with COVID-19.
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Impact of closures in Jewish community wreak havoc with food and finances, institutionally and...
The worldwide pandemic COVID-19 is wreaking havoc in its relentless sweep across the planet, not only in terms of health needs and care, but in economic terms as well. It has quashed the booming...
Coronavirus and the United Nations
As the world adjusts to life during a global pandemic, with nations implementing lockdown measures and citizens trying to cope with life in this new reality, it’s worth considering—and leveraging—the valuable role of the...
A crisis for Jewish philanthropy may force unpalatable choices
The coronavirus pandemic is not the first deadly contagion to ravage the globe, but it is clearly the first that modern nations have sought to combat by essentially shutting down public life and much...
Birthright, MIT and IDF Unit 8200 alumni collaborate in anti-coronavirus hackathon
Throughout Thursday night and into Friday, a virtual hackathon called “HackCorona” was held by the Birthright Excel Community (Birthright’s leadership program) in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the 8200 Alumni Association (an elite intelligence...