Tag: Coronavirus
Unity talks continue despite Knesset shutdown, COVID-19 crisis
With Israel’s Knesset shut down and amid an ongoing national health crisis, negotiations towards a unity government are quietly continuing.
Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein, a member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, shut...
Israel bars foreigners from entering nation; minister says headed for ‘full shutdown’
Israel banned foreigners from entering the country unless they have residency permits in order to try to stop the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), announced the Population and Immigration Authority.
“Following two weeks of restricting entry...
Coronavirus causes a surge of unemployment in Israel
More than 100,000 Israelis have been laid off and are eligible for unemployment benefits as a result of the economic situation in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
In a seven-hour period on Wednesday, 28,000...
Rosanna Arquette alleges Israel knew about virus, put ‘lives at risk for profit’
Actress Rosanna Arquette alleged in a now-deleted tweet that Israel “has been working on a vaccine for a year already” and has put “lives at risk for profit.”
“So Israel has been working on...
White House tells Chassidic community to follow coronavirus measures
In a conference call on Tuesday with the White House, Chassidic rabbis and leaders of the Orthodox community were told to follow the U.S. government’s measures and guidance to combat the coronavirus (COVID-19) seriously.
After...
A Yiddish song of hope during the coronavirus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRIWbcSAHxE
הרבֿ יואל ראָטה איז באַקאַנט דעם חסידישן עולם קודם ווי אַ בראַצלאַווער רבֿ, וואָס פֿירט אָן מיט דער וויליאַמסבורגער ישיבֿה „תּפֿארת התּורה‟. ראָטהס ישיבֿה איז באַרימט ווי אַן אָרט, וווּ בחורים וואָס פּאַסן זיך...
All YIVO online classes are now free of charge
אַלע ייִוואָ־קורסן אויף דער אינטערנעץ זענען איצט בחינם
מחמת אַלע זענען פֿאַרשפּאַרט צוליבן קאָראָנאַווירוס, האָט דער ייִוואָ באַשלאָסן צו אַנולירן דעם שׂכר־לימוד פֿאַר אַלע זײַנע אינטערנעץ־קורסן.
”דער ייִוואָ וויל אונדז דערמוטיקן און צושטעלן קלאַסן און מאַטעריאַלן...
WATCH: Yidn, listen to what this doctor is saying!
ווידעאָ: ייִדן, הערט זיך צו צו דעם דאָזיקן דאָקטער!
https://www.facebook.com/zackary.berger/videos/10158155890444711/
Former leader of Jewish community in Milan, 79, dies from coronavirus
Michele Sciama, former secretary-general of the main Jewish communal-life organization in Milan, Italy, died of the coronavirus on March 16 at the age of 79.
Sciama, who was known by those close to him as...
Coronavirus and the Palestinians
Alongside the dramatic health and political developments in Israel, there have also been developments on the Palestinian side, that while not as dramatic are worth watching. The coronavirus scare has captured Palestinian public opinion.
Aside...