Tag: COVID-19
15 Duke grad students test positive for COVID-19 after spring-break trip to Israel
At least 15 MBA students at Duke University in Durham, N.C., who traveled to Israel over spring break tested positive for COVID-19 and have been instructed to self-quarantine at their homes off-campus for at...
American Jewish Committee cancels global forum in Berlin due to pandemic
American Jewish Committee has canceled its annual global forum due to the coronavirus pandemic, announced the organization on Thursday.
It was scheduled to be held in Berlin from June 14-17.
“It was a tough call to...
Israeli universities, institutes lead the fight against coronavirus
Israeli universities and institutes—and their affiliated academics, researchers, doctors, scientists and students—are leading the fight against the coronavirus. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Technion‒Israel Institute of Technology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Migal Galilee...
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.
Yeshiva World News first...
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...