יום רביעי, ט״ו אב תשפ״וWednesday, July 29, 2026
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A clause was included in a Parliamentary bill, allowing for families of the deceased to oppose cremation out of religious reasons.
Pesach programs are now taking calls from customers who want a refund, and getting one is not always simple.
Even more "Stay at Home" than before.
The virus apparently began to spread at a Purim party.
An 87-year-old Israeli man has become the third Israeli to die of the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19), according to the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Anyone who holds a valid visa to immigrate to Israel is entitled enter Israel under the Law of Return, even though the borders are currently closed to foreign nationals.
The project involves more than 250 volunteers who deliver cooked meals to the elderly and other home-bound residents in each of Modiin’s 13 neighborhoods three times a week.
Israel started the morning with 529 Coronavirus patients. That number has since gone up.
Israel has updated and clarified which non-citizens will and will not be allowed into Israel.
Rabbi Riskin also ruled that someone who has been tested for Coronavirus must leave their phone on during Shabbat in case they get the results back.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Forgoing rent, free venues for ad-hoc weddings, free babysitting, food donations, and more. Israelis are finding ways to help one another through this crisis.
When the butcher came, people lunged at him and began grabbing meat off his tray.
By Sandy Eller
At Monsey's Yeshiva Ketana Ohr Reuven, four-year-old Tani Kahana has been davening together with his class on a video chat.
The majority of the patients are in light condition, 10 are in moderate condition and five are in serious condition.
This fund will primarily support elderly Israelis, some of whom are Holocaust survivors, with packages of food and other essential items.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Up to 80 percent of Israel’s public-sector workers and 70 percent of its private-sector office workers to go on leave until after Passover.
Satellite images reportedly showing the digging of mass graves in Iran.
As 324 people in Israel have tested positive for Coronavirus, 11 Israelis have recovered.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We always have, and always will, prioritize the safety and well-being of our students,” said Joe Wolfson, AMHSI-JNF chairman of the board.
Iran's official Coronavirus death toll is over 725, with some 14,000 people having tested positive. Unofficially...
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
COGAT and the Israeli Ministry of Health will continue their efforts to assist the PA in curbing the spread of the virus.
The decision came after consultation with Israel's Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef.
Jewish federations, denominations, day schools, Hebrew classes and synagogues are adapting to weeks and possibly months of social distancing and quarantines due to the pandemic.
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is in quarantine, and has issued instructions to the town of Efrat.
Excluded from the closures are nursery schools and kindergartens, classes up to 3rd grade, special education, and at-risk schools.
All the major banks are offering generous deferrals on mortgage payments to help them get through this difficult period.
The Hebrew University said it is well prepared for crisis events and has – aside from the online courses – arranged for some staff to be able to work from home.
This is an unprecedented American-Jewish leadership response to the spread of Coronavirus by the Bergen County Jewish leadership.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Because of the nature of the Bergen County Jewish community, families are often affiliated with more than one school, with significant interaction among the teachers and student populations. Several schools reported having a parent, staff member or student with symptoms of the virus.
Gabbay said he has sold millions of his mask – which was originally designed for chemotherapy patients with compromised autoimmune systems – since the outbreak of the new coronavirus.
Netanyahu: "With G-d's help and the cooperation of all of us, we will overcome this crisis."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The government announced Sunday that anyone arriving in Israel from abroad will have to self-quarantine, and only foreigners who can prove they have a place to self-quarantine will be admitted into the country.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A few hundred troops, trained to operate with the civilian population at a time of crisis, will assist the government in its efforts to stem the spread of the virus in Israel.
The Hezbollah terror chief reportedly met with a high-level Iranian delegation.
Palestinian Authority police are searching for foreigners and checking the passports of "non-Palestinians" they encounter.
Tourists and workers from abroad are being verbally abused, spat at and accused of “bringing Corona to Palestine.”
Much of the Mossad's work is overseas.
For the next 2 weeks, everyone entering Israel will be required to enter quarantine for 2 weeks.
Local residents are reporting that all the medical centers in the area are closed and the only emergency room at El Hussein Hospital is not even fully operational.
The PA has ordered the closure of all educational institutions, and banned all public events planned in these areas, including prayers in mosques and churches.
The Marathon has been postponed until after the holidays, in October. The notice did not say which year.
70,000 Israelis are currently quarantined with over 50,000 of those returning from trips to Europe.
The patient, a resident of Migdal Ha’Emek in the north, visited with his family in Milan last week, where he was infected.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We pledge to help ensure that Chinese people feel safe and supported, and to combat attacks and stereotyping on social media,” the letter said. “We know from history that such fearmongering can be devastating.”
From clothing to Kosher food to Passover programs... everything is affected.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The vaccine will be oral, making it particularly accessible to the general public.
Parents in eastern Jerusalem fear that Coronavirus has arrived in the city after a group of 14 girls returned from a trip in northern Italy and did not stay in quarantine.
Sheba hospital has been utilizing 3D printing in unique ways in their surgical department.
Netanyahu announced that Australia and Italy would be added to the list of countries with entry restrictions, joining Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and China.
Sheba is set to comfortably host the quarantined travelers, keeping both staff and other patients safe.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The new restriction will affect those who have traveled within the last two weeks to Thailand, Macau, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Sheba Medical Center is preparing to treat Coronavirus victims with a variety of high-tech tools.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s embassy in Japan has been working to ensure that the Israelis receive needed medications and kosher food.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We know that education and awareness are essential in the journey towards ensuring our health and the health of our families,” said Karen Arnovitz Grinzaid, executive director of JScreen.
Israel's Foreign Ministry stressed that at this stage, Israelis are not among those suspected of having the virus.
By Ken Stephens
"This is important news for patients with chronic kidney disease, who hopefully will benefit from these discoveries in the coming years."
Meanwhile, the PA claims that the hospital is “a crime committed by Hamas against the residents of the PA,” part of a plan to kill the idea of a Palestinian state.
The researchers found the molecule to be highly effective at sticking strongly to the viruses before these viruses could bind to the human receptors. It also activated the body’s immune response
Only approximately 150,000 vaccines remain in stock.
By Aryeh Green
Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can attack various parts of the body.
By Raphael Poch
Only a handful of United Hatzalah medics have EpiPens. You can change that!
Subscribe to our Sheba Medical Center list For the lucky ones, weight gain is limited to a few extra pounds put on over the holidays and lost in the weeks thereafter. But for those with a predisposition for overweight, the "battle of the bulge" is a lifelong struggle punctuated by physical and emotional challenges. Given […]
For the first time in years, Gamal has been able to return to school with his friends.
Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem successfully performed a cardiac catheterization using sound waves to treat a complex case of severe arterial congestion.
The treatment reduced the number of pancreatic cancer cells by 90% in the developed tumors a month after it was administered.
Last year Israel reached its lowest ever number of car accident fatalities per capita, at 3.6 deaths per 100,000 people.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Patients with damaged or torn menisci can have the transplant surgery as a replacement for previous treatments, such as pain management and physical therapy.
The doctors are now on call and will be deployed with MDA’s international emergency unit in case of a mass medical emergency.
Foreign caretakers work with the sick and elderly, which makes their having this knowledge even more useful.
By Rachel Cohen
ARC tasked with accelerating cutting-edge technologies developed by Israeli digital healthcare start-ups.
Based on these findings, the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN) and the Faculty of Health Sciences on BGU’s campus are in the preliminary stages of developing an anti-arrhythmia medication.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The FDA has few branches outside the United States, including those in China, and several European and Latin American nations.
In July 2015, the IDF established a new reserves unit dedicated to providing medical care and humanitarian assistance to the Arab population.
By Eliana Rudee
The exercise was meant to test the ability, technology, professionalism and quality of care the organization can provide in a worst-case disaster scenario.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This is the first type of agreement for Reut Hospital signed with a prestigious and leading medical institution in China.
By Rachel Cohen
Israel enjoys close relations with a number of countries that cover the gamut of growing cooperation - military, economic, natural resources and humanitarian.
By Rachel Cohen
Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer discovered a treatment that successfully improved receptive language skills in children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder, with a more successful outcome in the younger children, and released another study showing the incredible benefits of medical clowns in treating autism.
By Aryeh Green
The researchers discovered molecular interactions between Ewing sarcomas and proposed a treatment that prevents its spreading.
The Palestinian Authority is opposed to the project, saying it is part of a collaboration between Israel and Hamas to expand the split between the PA and the Strip.
By Raphael Poch
When the passengers took ill, the flight crew asked if there were any medical personnel on board.
Rabbi Bakush, who currently lives in Manali and serves as a Chabad emissary to the area, keeps a fully stocked medical kit from United Hatzalah with him wherever he goes.
Nahum and Noam Nevies were hit by a terrorist's car near Elazar in Gush Etzion.
United Hatzalah now has 18 new EMTs in the beautiful rolling hills of Judea.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Dvir Schnerb was certified to be an MDA EMT on Tuesday, less than two weeks after a terrorist bomb in southern Samaria killed his sister and left him seriously injured.
Israeli scientists say they've developed monosex prawns that can serve the triple goal of alleviating poverty, protecting the environment and reducing disease.
A sample of food is placed on a single-use pad, the device then analyzes the sample and gives an answer within three minutes to a smart-phone with which it is paired.
A new treatment developed at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv prevents scarring during surgeries for removing tumors in breast cancer patients.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s precise place in the 2019 top 10 list has yet to be disclosed — the final results are slated to be unveiled on July 24 at a special event the WIPO will be hosting in New Delhi.
From the PA to Hamas, each of the factions opposes the new hospital for their own reasons.
The last time that Israelis have been allowed to visit Manama, Bahrain’s capital, en masse was in the halcyon days following the signing of the Oslo Accords on the White House lawn in 1993.
The Filterlex device is designed to divert, capture, and excise emboli released during medical procedures.
The blood-brain barrier acts as a gatekeeper by blocking toxins and other foreign substances in the bloodstream from entering brain tissue and damaging it. It also can prevent potentially therapeutic drugs from reaching the brain.
NYSED’s Office of Counsel found that Yeshiva of Spring Valley’s blanket statement that it does not accept any religious exemptions was in violation of state law.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The girl's parents refused to accompany her to the hospital. The PA falsely blames Israel.
By Baruch Lytle
The Health Department made several visits to the school before closing it, and Mrs. Braun said the school addressed every issue the department raised.
Muhamad Saffi, 27 of Beit Lahiya, is a social activist who was arrested and tortured in a Hamas prison in Gaza.
By Sandy Eller
The Women’s Justice Agenda has already passed the Assembly and the Senate and Governor Cuomo has indicated that he will sign it into law.
By Joseph Aron and Shlomo Greenwald
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday declared a public health emergency in several zip codes in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to stem a nascent measles outbreak among Orthodox Jewish children.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Jewish state was joined in the healthiest-diet group by France, Italy and other countries in the northern Mediterranean region.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Our services there will [now] be fully funded for 2019, easing the financial pressure Magen David Adom has been under while we’ve continued to fully provide EMS services,” said Ronen Bashari, MDA’s head of operations.
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