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A kindergarten in Moshav Yashresh, Israel, Oct.18, 2020. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.

Did COVID lockdowns harm children’s immune systems?

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A cross-section study published earlier this month by Israeli researchers has raised the question of whether lockdowns and social distancing changed something in the human immune system, especially that of children. In the months after...
Tel Aviv, April 4, 2021. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Israel may have achieved herd immunity against COVID-19

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Israel may have reached herd immunity against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, say experts from its largest hospital, Sheba Medical Center. Herd immunity occurs when a sufficient percentage of a population has immunity—through vaccination or having recovered...
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi receiving the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 20, 2020. Source: IDF via Twitter.

IDF said to be first army to achieve herd immunity against COVID-19

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The Israel Defense Forces is the first military in the world to have achieved herd immunity against the COVID-19 virus, a top IDF official said on Thursday. According to Maj. Gen. Itzik Turgeman, the head...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference at the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem on Jan. 1, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Did Netanyahu outmaneuver his political opponents by calling off immunity push?

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Shortly before the release on Tuesday of details on the Mideast peace plan by U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu withdrew his request for immunity on the three indictments...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Israeli parliament members during a vote on a bill to dissolve the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 29, 2019. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Netanyahu withdraws request for parliamentary immunity

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is currently in Washington, D.C., for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, announced on Tuesday that he will withdraw his request for parliamentary immunity from prosecution in...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Credit: Flash90.

Most MKs oppose Bibi’s immunity request

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Bibi made an application for immunity, and is now doing all that he can so the Knesset will postpone consideration of it. Until after the election? Which one? The third in the last year, or the...