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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“In light of the low demand for passenger flights, the company has decided to extend the temporary cessation of flights,” said the airline.
There has been concern that the government reopened the schools too soon due to public pressure.
The lion statues in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City have been repainted with appropriate coronavirus masks and safety messages.
Residents of the neighborhood have been asked to stay home, while people in direct contact with the family have to go into isolation.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel’s economy is expected to contract by 5.5 percent in 2020 for the first time in over two decades, but is expected to recover.
The device could be a game-changer in the next step towards reopening shuls on Shabbat.
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 Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Only five new patients were registered in the past day.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
At some point, violent rioting began, including the throwing of rocks and other objects at the police, as well as forceful resistance to the police’s instructions.to leave the scene.
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 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)
Dr. Anthony Fauci of the White House coronavirus task force, advised incremental steps in re-establishing in-person prayer.
Mail delivery to Israel was suspend for nearly 2 weeks.
Business listings during the Coronavirus crisis.
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.
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.
Israel is slowly easing restrictions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Just inches from its highest level in 20 years, the Kinneret’s biggest fans remain barred from its shores due to current travel restrictions.
“Challah and Chicken Soup for the Quarantined Soul” includes rolls, grape juice, candles and homemade soup (matzah balls optional).
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.
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.
Miriam Fuld was concerned for the welfare of the Efrat counter-terrorist unit, when they would go outside on emergency calls.
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.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The EU is upset with Israel talking about the possible application of sovereignty.
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.
I feel like this is one of the my most important messages. It is a message for all of the Jewish People outside of Israel. Please share it with as many people as you can.
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 Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Strict coronavirus regulations prevent public events to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day this year, leading organizers to find new ways to continue the traditions and educational efforts associated with it.
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).
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.
With the maximum allowed number of participants, former Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron was buried in Jerusalem's Har Hamenuchot ceremony, after dying from the Coronavirus.
A parking lot was turned into a 22-station field hospital, while 2 departments have been converted into Coronavirus units.
Jerusalem is being divided into 7 districts, and during the lockdown it will be forbidden to travel between districts.
I'll be stuck at home with my awesome, yet sometimes annoying family, for more than two months!?
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.
Only local residents and suppliers will be allowed in and out of the Haredi town of Beitar Ilit in Gush Etzion.
By Dvir Amior
One Israeli youth movement leader describes what his community is doing to help others 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.
Menachem said that after being a patient himself his “outlook is completely different.”
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.
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.”
The focus is on neighborhoods with a lot of violations of the coronavirus health regulations.
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...
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.
Coronavirus or not, Pesach is coming and people need Matza to eat.
Johnson said his Covid-19 symptoms are mild.
The equipment, which was donated by the World Health Organization (WHO), was transferred on Wednesday from Jordan into the PA via the IDF.
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.
Updated: March 24, 2020.
Tonight at candle lighting time, Jews in Israel and around the world will go out to their gardens, porches, and windows to sing Lecha Dodi and Shalom Aleichem together.
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.
All around Israel, the country is being cleaned before the upcoming Passover holiday, like never before in history.
When the butcher came, people lunged at him and began grabbing meat off his tray.
The majority of the patients are in light condition, 10 are in moderate condition and five are in serious condition.
With families stuck together this is the perfect time to pray together. Music and a message from Rabbi Jeremy Gimpel.
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...
The guests were spread out on the balconies to comply with the Coronavirus restrictions.
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.
Excluded from the closures are nursery schools and kindergartens, classes up to 3rd grade, special education, and at-risk schools.
September 25, 2026 
