Tag: COVID-19
Hospitals: Patients afraid of coronavirus are skipping treatment and dying
Fear of contracting coronavirus is causing many Israelis to avoid seeking medical treatment, which is resulting in preventable deaths, according to the country’s hospitals.
At Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, a man died of...
FDA approves chloroquine for emergency COVID-19 trials
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the use of chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine for emergency treatment of COVID-19 patients, despite a lack of clinical data on their efficacy.
According to financial daily Globes,...
Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman tests positive for coronavirus
Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman and his wife, Chava, have been diagnosed with coronavirus and will go into quarantine, the country’s Health Ministry confirmed on Thursday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been informed that...
Mix-up leads to wrong corona funeral in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Moshe Grunwald lived a full and long life. A scion of the Pupa Chassidic dynasty, he survived Auschwitz and the Nazi death marches, rebuilding his family and his life in America.
A longtime resident of Brooklyn,...
Romania Jewish community given rabbinical permission for Shabbat burials
The Jewish community of Bucharest, Romania, received a rabbinical exception to bury those who have died as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on Shabbat to help bypass Romanian government orders on Friday that such victims...
IsraAID partners with Rome Jewish community to help frontline workers, volunteers
The Israeli humanitarian aid organization IsraAID is providing support to frontline medical professionals and volunteers in the organization’s emergency units responding to the coronavirus crisis in Italy with the launch of webinars on stress...
Indifferent to human suffering?
A Palestinian activist’s harsh response to the first Israeli fatality from the coronavirus has sparked some controversy. It’s a tempest in a teapot, but it also contains an important lesson or two.
The activist, Ms....
Israeli defense minister confirms unrestricted entry of hundreds from pandemic hot spots
Hundreds of Israelis returning from countries with high coronavirus infection rates have entered Israel without being tested or sent into quarantine, Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett admitted on Tuesday.
He was responding to a Channel 12 report,...
21st Israeli dies of COVID-19 as cases reach 5,591; unemployment hits record highs
As Israel saw its 21st coronavirus fatality on Wednesday and confirmed infections in the country hit 5,591, the Israel National Employment Service (INES) announced that the number of unemployment claimants has exceeded 1 million...
Professor tells Hezbollah TV: COVID-19 may have leaked from US lab
The COVID-19 virus may have leaked from Fort Detrick, a U.S. Army installation in Maryland, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside told Hezbollah’s Manar TV on Sunday.
Palestinian American professor Seif Da’na, who was...