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The legislation would end the Israeli government’s authorization to enact public closures, require individuals to isolate, set limits on public gatherings, or require people to furnish a green pass among other measures.
Magen David worker take a COVID-19 rapid antigen test from Israelis, at a Magen David Adom drive through complex in Jerusalem.
The decision is subject to the approval of the Knesset.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The number of coronavirus cases in Israel continues to drop with 497 patients hospitalized.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The mandate is to be lifted on April 23 at 8 p.m., excluding high-risk locations such as hospitals, old-age homes and flights.
Bennett's planned trip to India will have to be cancelled or delayed.
The R coefficient, which indicates the spread of the virus, has climbed in recent days after consistently dropping, and was registered at 0.86,
By Israel Hayom
Businesses that prove annual revenue losses of at least 35% in January-February 2022 compared to the same months in 2019 will be eligible to receive up to $185,000.
In the months after Israel lifted the majority of social restrictions, there was a sharp incline in respiratory and gastrointestinal infections among the 0-3 age group, a peer-reviewed study by Ben-Gurion University shows.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Green Pass is set to expire on March 1.
Doctors from medical centers throughout the country explain how a wave of vaccinated people has filled its hospitals.
Children are having difficulty recognizing faces that are partially covered by masks, and this could potentially impact social interactions with peers and educators, as well as the ability to form important relationships.
Esther Pollard had been battling cancer and recently caught the Coronavirus.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Her husband, Jonathan, has asked that the public pray for her speedy recovery: Esther Yocheved Bat Reisel Bracha.
By Eliana Rudee
“The policies make no sense, and honestly, left me feeling like they don’t like Americans and want to see us suffer. I’m not saying this is the case, but it felt that way,” said groom-to-be Mark Spiro.
One of Bennett's staff members also tested positive.
Israel's Foreign Ministry said that the Exceptions Committee, which discusses special entry requests, has issued numerous permits, to both Jews and Christians.
“It should be emphasized that the team member did not sit near the minister during the flight"
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Bennett was not at home in quarantine when he got the news, he was in the Knesset.
Citizens are angry at the double-standard and have gone to Twitter with it.
In response to the newly discovered 'Omicron' strain of the Coronavirus...
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
The nearly unanimous vote on the move by a panel of experts comes on the heels of the FDA-CDC decision last week to inoculate kids in that age group.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
During the first seven days of their stay, the “unprotected” tourists in the group will perform a PCR test every 72 hours or present a negative result in an antigen test performed every 24 hours.
Coronavirus patients are up to three times more likely to have a stroke or heart attack.
Out of a total of 102 people in that age group who are seriously ill from Covid, 92 are unvaccinated.
The study’s findings show that it is a relatively rare side effect even in the population group at the highest risk, young men.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A bit over half of the new cases, 1,349, were school children.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Before authorizing a third COVID-19 vaccine shot for all, the U.S. is looking to clarify the risk of myocarditis mRNA vaccines pose to young people.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The third dose boosts the immunity of its recipients about tenfold compared to those who had received only two doses of the vaccine at least five months earlier.
The study found that the older the child, the higher the chance of the child contending with Long COVID.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Our problem is people who don’t get vaccinated. We need [to influence] them a bit; otherwise, we’ll never get out of this,” Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz tells Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The drop in the R coefficient is the result of the administering of the third COVID-19 booster shot in recent weeks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Participants will still have to do PCR and serological tests upon arrival.
The teacher was required to present a negative test after refusing to be vaccinated.
There are other drugs available on the market which provide similar help.
Those side effects were generally mild, and included arm pain, temperature or nausea.
The serological survey began today in Kiryat Ya’arim, as children from Israel’s ultra-orthodox sector returned to school for a new year of studies.
The ministers were Avigdor Lieberman, Omer Barlev, Yifat Shasha-Biton, and Orna Barbivai.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Lapid's aide as well as another Yesh Atid MK tested positive.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
AIPAC president Betsy Berns Korn announced the decision in a letter, writing that the top priority was the health and safety of attendees.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
However, the benefit of the vaccine in preventing hospitalizations and severe morbidity is estimated at 93%.
The problem of Israel's soon-to-be-expired Coronavirus vaccines may have found a resolution.
The spike in Coronavirus infections from the Delta variant has raised red flags.
When tragedy strikes, our moral and halakhic duty is to transcend the natural, and scrutinize our own actions by looking at ourselves in our own mirror, and not the actions of the others seen through the window, so that a desired change may hopefully come.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The only restriction left is wearing masks inside closed public spaces, and that is under review.
By Israel Hayom
The Israeli Health Ministry has yet to issue a final decision on safety of Pfizer vaccine in children; Israel has recorded 70 cases of heart inflammation among vaccinated teens thus far.
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein announced today that he will not extend the restrictions that will expire next Tuesday, June 1st.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The IDF announced in March that it was the first army in the world to reach herd immunity.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A number of the infections were in five schools.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
In all cases, those who were infected had not been vaccinated against the virus.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In the first stage of a phased plan, a limited number of tour groups will start to arrive, with individual travelers being admitted at a later date, says Tourism Ministry.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The hospital said it has no Covid-19 patients on life support and no one died from the Coronavirus for the first time in a year.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Ministry of Health said it documented only 681 new COVID-19 cases over the past day.
Sheikh Omar Barghouti was one of three terrorists who murdered an Israeli in 1978. He was captured and spent 27 years in prison until his release as part of the Jibril Deal in 1985.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Palestinian Authority continues to pay large salaries to jailed terrorists rather than properly invest in health care for its citizens.
The improvement in Israel’s situation vis-à-vis the Coronavirus is attributed to its success to rapidly vaccinate its population.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The last 18 Corona patients hospitalized in Ichilov, the main hospital complex serving Tel Aviv and its metropolitan area, were moved to a designated compound.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Some 120,000 PA Arabs will be vaccinated by Israeli medical teams with Moderna vaccines, which have been allocated by the state, at eight different locations throughout Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The research discovered an increase in antibodies in the blood and in breast milk 14 days after the first shot and seven days after the second.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Some 81% of all IDF personnel were vaccinated with two doses or have recovered from the virus.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Hundreds of workers arrived at the eight locations on Monday to receive the first of their two shots.
The test has a 100% success rate in identifying people who are infected.
PM Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview on Fox on Thursday, discusses vaccines, returning to school, the ICC kangaroo court, Iran's nuclear plans and Joe Biden.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The PA Healthy Ministry insisted that only 10% of the vaccines were given to PA security personnel, soccer players, government officials and members of the PLO.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Yuli Edelstein announces the good news, while his deputy warns about the climbing reproduction rate.
Arab activists also claim that some of the Covid-19 vaccines have been sold on the black market for as much as NIS 500 per dose.
The vaccines the Palestinian Authority received went to the PA leadership and their close associates.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The workers will be vaccinated by Israeli medical teams with Moderna vaccines, which have been assigned by the state.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
70% of Israelis over the age of 16 have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
About 50% of all IDF soldiers received the second Pfizer-developed dose at least a week ago.
Israel Minister of Finance Yisrael Katz stated that this number is “another proof of the strength of the Israeli economy.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The study compared 1.2 million Israelis. Half were fully vaccinated, half were not vaccinated at all.
By Israel Hayom
With Israel’s national carrier the only airline operating flights for Israelis stranded in America due to the COVID closure of Ben-Gurion Airport, the Transportation Dep’t is threatening to prevent El Al from landing in the U.S.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The process will take a month.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The health system has noted a significant slowdown in its campaign to vaccinate the population in recent days due to a lack of interest in the public.
Of the 66 vaccinated people who did contract COVID-19, all had mild cases of the virus.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A total of 5,300 survivors contracted the virus in the past year, and 17% died.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This is not the first time that Facebook has censored the prime minister of Israel.
By Israel Hayom
The nine-step plan includes grants for businesses and families and aid to the unemployed • Blue and White dismisses the move as a political stunt ahead of the March elections.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
January is emerging to be the worst month Israel has experienced in regards to COVID-19 deaths since the outbreak in the country over a year ago.
There are now Close to 6,000 corona patients in the Gaza Strip and another 4,000 patients in the PA.
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been used by anti-Semites to spread conspiracy theories against Jews around the world and against the State of Israel.
By Israel Hayom
As of Friday, four babies, aged 13 days to two years old, were hospitalized in a newly established coronavirus unit at Hadassah Ein Karem Medical Center. Three were listed in serious condition.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli Health Ministry reports that 2,365,041 people, or 26.6 percent of the population, have received the first dose COVID-19 vaccine.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Meanwhile, Israel’s Ministry of Health recommends that pregnant and nursing women get inoculated, in consultation with their doctors.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
"The vaccine will protect better than infection with the disease itself.”
The rabbi was apparently infected by his wife who contracted the virus earlier in the week.
Four cases of the virus were discovered in Israel, all in citizens who have recently returned from South Africa.
The system has the ability to destroy various bacteria and viruses, including the Coronavirus, at a rate of 99.9%
By Israel Hayom
Interior Minister Amir Ohana says only prison staff receive vaccines at this time, while prisoners will be vaccinated at the same time as the general population.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel hopes to vaccinate about a third of its population against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the coming month, possibly the first country in the world to achieve this crucial landmark.
Israel is so far the fastest country in inoculating its population against the Coronavirus (COVID-19).
Rabbi Elimelech Firer's message to the public: Get vaccinated!
Two very opposite policy implementations...
By Israel Hayom
The hope is that the decree, issued by rabbis Chaim Kanievsky, Gershon Edelstein, Shalom Cohen and Elimelech Firer, will be helpful in curbing morbidity in the “haredi” community.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The second phase will involve some 1,000 volunteers and is expected to begin in the coming days. Its aim is to determine safety precautions, effective dosage and further test effectiveness.
This is Netanyahu's third time in quarantine.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The cabinet stepped away from its decision to impose a nighttime curfew, apparently after encountering legal issues.
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