Tag: COVID-19
As pandemic uncertainties continue, summer gets a dose of virtual camp
This past March, when the reality of no school and parents working from home began to set in, a few young Jewish summer-camp lovers began to raise the next inevitable question: What if camps...
Which rights take precedence in a pandemic turned civil crisis?
The United States Supreme Court ruled last week that religious services were not exempt from government restrictions on free assembly in a pandemic. Only a few days later, what might have seemed like fair...
10,000 Israelis quarantined, 43 schools closed following COVID-19 spike
A sharp rise in the number of coronavirus patients in Israel, particularly among students and teachers, is causing health and education officials to consider shutting down the school system for the rest of the academic year....
First Israeli nonprofit bank raises $30 million for coronavirus assistance in Israel
Israel’s first nonprofit bank, the Ogen Group, announced on Monday that it has raised $30 million from donors and impact lenders from Israel and abroad to provide emergency survival loans and financial mentoring to...
No time like a pandemic to make aliyah, say North American Jews
May saw the highest number of American and Canadian Jews requesting to make aliyah through the Nefesh B’Nefesh organization since it was founded in 2002, according to numbers obtained by Israel Hayom.
The figures indicate that the number...
Proposed Israeli ‘Coronavirus Law’ to be softened due to civil-rights concerns
Following a public outcry this week, proposed legislation seeking to increase the Israeli government’s powers to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic is going to be softened.
In its current form, the “Coronavirus Law”—a memorandum of...
Some 200,000 Israelis have had COVID-19, new study shows
According to a new study by Tel Aviv University in conjunction with Magen David Adom and the Israeli Health Ministry’s Center for Disease Control, some 2.5 percent of Israel’s population, or some 200,000 people,...
Health Ministry: Israel to keep borders closed until July
Israel will keep its borders closed to non-citizens until at least July 1, according to Israeli Health Ministry deputy director-general Itamar Grotto.
“We are still in the stage of preparing to reopen Ben-Gurion airport. We...
Thousands of Israeli students quarantined after COVID-19 cases found in schools
Multiple schools have been closed in Israel and thousands of students sent into quarantine after multiple students and staff members at schools in Jerusalem, Beersheva and Hadera tested positive for coronavirus.
In Hadera, a high...
Temple Mount reopens to worshippers for first time in two months
Jews arrived in droves to ascend to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Sunday morning, the first time that the sacred site was reopened to Jewish visitation since being closed due to COVID-19 concerns...