יום רביעי, ט״ו אב תשפ״וWednesday, July 29, 2026
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“Typically, I shop for about five families a day,” she says. “If I do a big order for one family, I will fill up a cart and take it back to my car, and then go back into the store.”
The device could be a game-changer in the next step towards reopening shuls on Shabbat.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Ten farms, five factories with Health Ministry approval • Companies already closing deals with buyers in Europe and Canada.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We will need to consider which activities to run, who can attend and what the maximum number will be,” said Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. “Events such as Kiddushim may not be possible for some time.”
By Israel Hayom
The rescue, spearheaded by Likud MK Nir Barkat, involved intense efforts by Israel’s National Security Council and the use of a Boeing 767 belonging to billionaire philanthropists Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We will compare samples from COVID-19 patients with samples from patients with other diseases to see if we can identify the different stages of infection,” said Professor Gabby Sarusi.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Only five new patients were registered in the past day.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Similar to shops and malls, restaurants and cafes will be required to post at their entrances the number of people allowed in at one time.
By Chabad.org
Given that some places may not lift their stay-at-home orders for weeks yet, just how would a “virtual” camp program work?
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel is reaching out to the Jews of the Diaspora and has initiated a roundtable of global and regional Jewish organizations to assess the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on Jewish communities and prepare a plan for their rehabilitation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
As of early May, Jews make up about 5 percent of the 25,987 reported fatalities in France as a result of complications due to COVID-19.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It comes after New York Mayor Bill de Blasio upset many with a series of tweets about hundreds gathered in the Williamsburg neighborhood for the funeral of a respected rabbi.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Dr. Anthony Fauci of the White House coronavirus task force, advised incremental steps in re-establishing in-person prayer.
After coming out of a month-long coma, Eli' beer's first question was, "When is Pesach?”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
It is important to emphasize that Gammora is being tested as a treatment or cure and not a vaccination for preventing the virus.
Hundreds of intensive care beds were inaugurated at Sheba Medical Center, to serve in times of national emergencies.
By Sandy Eller
His lack of leadership during the critical early days makes him indirectly responsible for having killed many New Yorkers.
Six ambulances, two MICUs, a command vehicle and other designated emergency vehicles will be deployed in the field.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The high-tech surveillance program discovered 5,516 of 16,265 infected people, the Knesset intelligence subcommittee was told.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel will conduct 100,000 serological tests to assess the threat posed by a potential second wave of COVID-19, the Health Ministry said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Iran’s Mahan Air continued to operate flights to multiple Middle Eastern countries until late March despite coronavirus lockdowns, probe shows.
The specially designed pin will be awarded to some 200,000 Health Management System workers, doctors and nurses in hospitals and evacuation and rescue teams.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Flights won't resume due to regulations barring entry to foreigners and requiring returning Israelis to self-isolate for two weeks, airline says • Israeli Health Ministry to review policy on May 15.
According to some studies, close to 50% of COVID-19 deaths involved secondary bacterial infections.
The work day at MDA's Logistics Center started about two months ago and has not stopped since, even for one minute.
The sites of Western Wall Tunnels remain closed until further notice.
Israel is slowly easing restrictions.
The concert is in addition to the IAC’s community efforts to support healthcare workers.
The mask is reusable, washable and sterilizable, and is easy to breathe in. It is transparent in front to enable lip reading and is designed not to fog up from people’s breath. What’s more, it is comfortable and affordable.
The Israeli school system opened its doors on Sunday for grades 1-3 and 11- 12 after weeks of closure due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
“Challah and Chicken Soup for the Quarantined Soul” includes rolls, grape juice, candles and homemade soup (matzah balls optional).
While some rabbis have banned the porch minyan on various grounds, week upon week of staying home has started to wear people down, and the phenomenon has increased.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s coronavirus death toll reaches 219, but the rate of new infections continues to plummet • Israeli Health Ministry reinstates elective procedures, surgeries and treatment at outpatient clinics.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Health Ministry director said the app would reveal who was at the mall or market, which route they took and who they were near.
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The kindergartens and grades 1-3 will return to school and will learn in small groups and on alternating days.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The court orders the government to pass new legislation within the next few weeks if it wishes to continue to track the movements of coronavirus carriers.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Over the past week there was an upsurge in online global anti-Semitism tying Israel and Jews to the Coronavirus.
Sheba Medical Center will supply the NIH’s Vaccine Research Center with blood samples, plasma and the COVID-19 virus itself from infected patients in Israel.
Fitch says that the global repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic and domestic containment measures will cause Israel’s real GDP to contract by 5.6% in 2020, but projects a rebound in 2021, with GDP growing by 5%.
Rabbi Haber was a victim of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Minister Litzman has been receiving a lot of criticism over his ministry's handling of the coronavirus crisis.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“It’s not a happy announcement, but it’s one we have to make,” said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Researchers from Bar-Ilan University have developed new methodologies to produce powerful, environmentally-friendly disinfectants, based on tap water, that can eliminate bacteria and kill viruses, including microbes from the coronavirus family.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The challenges have affected every sector of Jewish communal life, including organizational closures, staff layoffs, canceled programs, a pivot to online education and an increase in financial-aid needs.
By Sarah Stern
Far too many “human-rights” organizations are guilty of promulgating the oldest hatred known to humankind: anti-Semitism, a virus that has endured a great deal longer than COVID-19.
The study is investigating whether if cannabidiol can slow down the inflammatory process that accompanies the deterioration of severe Coronavirus patients and alleviate the symptoms of the disease.
The patent, approved in March, covers a vaccine that targets the most vulnerable point in a coronavirus’s structure, through which it penetrates human cells
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Iranian regime has a long history of promoting anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial and has hosted several international cartoon contests promoting these themes.
Residents of the Gaza Strip are complaining that donations collected on their behalf in Arab countries are not reaching them, and even as the economic hardship in the Strip intensifies Hamas is not transferring budgets from its funds to deal with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
Laundries, seamstresses/tailors and shoe repair shops are permitted to open. Barbers stay closed (it's sefirah time anyway).
Each mask came packaged with an encouraging message that read “Also highly contagious—kindness, patience, love, enthusiasm and positive attitude. Don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.”
Dr. Abed Zachalka from the Mayanei HaYeshua hospital in ultra-orthodox city of Bnei Brak had the privilege to bring in a Sefer Torah into the Coronavirus wing of the hospital last week.
It's not yet a trend, but it is a distinct break in the pattern to date.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli Health Ministry reports 23 confirmed cases and “hundreds of potential infections” in Deir al-Assad amid a worrying rise in infections throughout Israel’s Arab sector.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Soldiers from Unit 81, the Intelligence Division’s technological unit, collaborated with doctors at Sheba Medical Center and developed respirators for treating anesthetized Coronavirus (COVIS-19) patients in severe condition.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The committee chose to support a wide range of projects dealing with the challenges of coronavirus because the fight against the pandemic needs to be waged on multiple fronts,” according to the Ministry of Economics and Industry.
The elderly man, quarantined in the old age home, needed assistance putting his Tefillin on.
The Arab media has published articles about the training of dozens of doctors, nurses and medical personnel from Gaza at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon and at the Erez Crossing.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The machine was brought from an unnamed Muslim country through Jordan.
The underground areas of Sheba's rehabilitation center are being renovated so that by next week, another 180 beds will be ready.
Jerusalem is being divided into 7 districts, and during the lockdown it will be forbidden to travel between districts.
Efrat resident Moshe Kesselman organized some of his fellow residents of Efrat to sing Psalm 54 together, while separated by the Coronavirus.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The cities under discussion include Elad, Modi’in Illit, Migdal HaEmek, Beitar Illit, Ashkelon, Tiberias and Or Yehuda. Parts of Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh will also be shut down.
The Haifa Technology Center had joined Israeli Air Force (IAF) Major David Alkahar in developing a computerized automatic respirator and has published the code online for the world’s benefit.
El Al has adapted 11 Dreamliner aircraft to carry cargo for this purpose.
Only local residents and suppliers will be allowed in and out of the Haredi town of Beitar Ilit in Gush Etzion.
Israel's Ultra-Orthodox are helping those in need during the coronavirus crisis.
Volunteers from the Bnei Brak chapter of United Hatzalah are providing care for approximately 50 residents who live in the old age home.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The shortage is due to the closure of many kosher slaughterhouses, as well as the outlawing of “shechita” (kosher ritual slaughtering) in certain parts of Europe.
Netanyahu was in the vicinity of Health Minister Yaakov Litzman.
On a recent Wednesday morning, East Coast time, thousands of Orthodox Jews stopped what they were doing to recite a series of psalms all at the same time.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Antibody levels will be studied by medical professionals from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center.
By Chabad.org
“I’m sorry,” he told the shocked family. “We took out the wrong casket. Please wait while I return this casket and bring out Mr. Grunwald.”
Menachem said that after being a patient himself his “outlook is completely different.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Bank of America Securities, Barclays Bank, Goldman Sachs, and Citibank acted as underwriters for the issue.
By Guest Author
Could I actually have the virus? I’m supposed to be the one treating the sick, not the other way around.
Watch (and read) an important webinar titled Navigating Regulatory Changes, covering the latest “CARES” stimulus act as well as other relief initiatives and how they affect you, your business or organization.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to Defense Minister Naftali Bennett, his proposal to impose restrictions on arrivals from the U.S., Italy, Spain and France was turned down • Bennett for greater Israeli self-reliance in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
The elderly have been found to be most vulnerable to Coronavirus.
The Palestinian Authority is worried that Arab residents from Jerusalem will infect Arab residents of the PA.
By Israel Hayom
Israeli Defense Ministry’s Tank Rehabilitation and Maintenance Center is churning out 1,400 pairs of protective goggles a day • “We are working at full strength to find creative solutions that will save lives,” says Maintenance Center commander Col. Udi Amira.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
While preparations for an exit from the Corona-related lockdown after the Passover holiday were underway one localized flare-up would torpedo all efforts.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Orthodox Rabbi Kenneth Brander, the dean of the Israel’s Ohr Torah Stone network of institutions, said while cremation is normally considered a “desecration” in Judaism, if it helps save a life during this time it would be “a mitzvah that the deceased is doing posthumously.”
By Josh Hasten
The first group were infected by one person during the Purim Megillah reading, the next day, 17 people had Purim seudah with that person, then on Shabbat, that group split up into different minyanim...
The Israeli government tasked Colel Chabad with providing Passover food security for 30,000 households affected by the Coronavirus economic crisis.
The Chinese wet markets have reopened, bats and other animals are again being sold for food.
There are a shortage of respirators everywhere.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Infections in Bnei Brak are increasing eightfold every three days, compared to the twofold national average.
By Josh Wander
When asked what should the Jewish response be to Coronavirus, Rav Binyamin Elyashiv performed a Goral HaGra, and the response he received...
By Eliana Rudee
Staff members are at the forefront of medical technologies and innovation, task forces, methods and vaccines in the making, working to protect the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Our children /lare watching their parents to see how we are holding up, and looking to us for cues.
Rabbi Shimon Freundlich, the Chabad-Lubavitch shaliach to Beijing, China speaks of the dangers of congregating in minyanim due to the rapid spread of the highly contagious Coronavirus. He addresses the issues of assembling outdoor minyanim and said that those are strictly prohibited as well.
Defense officials are working on a national plan to get food, medical equipment and other basic needs to vulnerable Israelis under COVID-19.
Bennett opposes a complete lock-down in Israel at this point.
Johnson said his Covid-19 symptoms are mild.
The emergency number for the new dispatch center is the same as United Hatzalah’s regular number of 1221.
All tax returns and tax payments for 2019 and estimated tax payments for 2020 otherwise due initially April 15 will not be due before July 15.
Setting up an ad hoc distribution center, the Kibbutz elders sorted the flowers and the youth set up a circulation point, all working 18 hours a day to save the flowers.
The equipment, which was donated by the World Health Organization (WHO), was transferred on Wednesday from Jordan into the PA via the IDF.
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