Tag: COVID-19
Israel holds national drill to prepare for lethal ‘Omega’ COVID-19 variant
Israel began a national drill on Thursday to test the country’s preparedness for the outbreak of a new, more lethal variant of the COVID-19 virus.
The exercise, which is being conducted from a situation room...
Israel sends COVID-19 assistance to hard-hit Romania
The fourth wave of COVID-19 has hit Romania hard. The country is confronting its worst wave of infections since the pandemic started nearly two years ago, with 500 deaths a day and over 10,000...
Israel welcomes individual tourists back into the country
This is the moment that so many travelers—and Israel’s tourism industry—have been waiting for since the pandemic shut out much of foreign travel through Ben-Gurion International Airport in March 2020.
As of Nov. 1, Israel...
Enrollment in Jewish day schools continues to see increase as pandemic lingers
A Jewish day-school enrollment boost that began during last year’s COVID-19 school shutdowns is continuing, according to a new study from Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools.
In the last two years, the report found...
Can a synagogue feel open with locked doors? Rabbis reflect on Pittsburgh, three years...
In a sense, the Jewish communal reactions to the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh and the coronavirus pandemic were diametric opposites.
After Robert Bowers shot and killed 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue...
French teacher receives suspended jail sentence for agitating anti-Semitism
A teacher in France received a suspended jail sentence on Wednesday after raising an anti-Semitic sign at a demonstration over the country’s coronavirus health pass system.
Cassandre Fristot received a six-month suspended prison sentence after...
Israel sees spike in number of kids hospitalized with rare post-COVID syndrome
In the past two weeks in Israel, one child has died and 35 have been hospitalized, one in critical condition, due to a surge in cases of Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome (PIMS), according to...
Israelis march in Tel Aviv in protest of Covid ‘Green Pass’ rules
Israelis once again took to the streets in Tel Aviv on Saturday night in protest against the government’s Oct. 3 decision to restrict the country’s COVID “Green Pass” to only those who have received...
Tourist entry into Israel doubles since last year, but still well below pre-pandemic numbers
The number of tourists entering Israel last month was more than double that of September 2020 and around half of that in the same month in 2019, the Israel’s Tourism Ministry reported on Wednesday.
According...
US to examine Israeli data on booster-shot side effects in young people
U.S. chief medical adviser Dr. Antony Fauci has said that the United States will be looking at Israeli data on COVID-19 vaccine booster shots to clarify the level of risk involved in administering them...