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Battling COVID: Weekly Update

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

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Illustrative: A doctor checks a medical ventilator control panel while wearing protective clothing at the Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, March 16, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)

With low survival rate, doctors see ventilators as gut-wrenching last resort

By Nathan Jeffay

As deaths pile up, physicians say they are trying everything, but hooking up patients to breathing machines comes with a harsh dose of reality that their chances are slim

AnalysisA week into lockdown exit, plunging infection rates tempered by mounting worries

By Nathan Jeffay

A sign in a window shop on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on October 25, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

State comptroller cites ‘significant shortcomings’ in Israel’s pandemic response

By Nathan Jeffay

Defense Minister Benny Gantz visits a laboratory in the Israel Institute for Biological Research on October 25, 2020. (Defense Ministry)

Israel begins mass-producing coronavirus vaccines ahead of human trials

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Aiming for regulatory approval by July, Institute for Biological Research to develop 15 million doses for Israelis, Palestinians and other possible buyers

A scientist works in a laboratory in the Israel Institute for Biological Research on October 25, 2020. (Defense Ministry)

Human trials for Israeli coronavirus vaccine to begin November 1

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel's Scentech Medical hopes to create a breath test to sniff out the coronavirus (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli company announces identification of COVID-19 indicators in breath test

Ultra-Orthodox non-compliance rests on fear

The rabbis are assigning higher priority to ’customer retention’ than to the clear halakhic imperative to preserve health and life

Peta Jones Pellach

Learning from Noah’s quarantine

Did it take the forced lockdown of the flood for humans to understand what their place in creation should be? (Noah)

Alan M. Dershowitz

Choose life! That’s the Jewish way, and it hasn’t changed

I grew up in Orthodox Borough Park and I’m sad that what I see there today doesn’t represent the life-affirming sources of Jewish law that have served Jews for millennia of crises

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

The day we leave these arks

Will we rise to the challenge, and shape the post-coronavirus world to be a better place? Or will we try, like Noah, to leave this time in the past, and forget it all?

Prof. Zeev Rotstein, CEO of Hadassah Hospital, speaks during a press conference to introduce the new medical team at the hospital's hemato-oncology department, June 13, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90/File)

Hadassah in negotiations to open hospital in Dubai

Head of Jerusalem medical center says proposal could turn Hadassah into a ‘medical power in the UAE,’ denies using talks to leverage funds from Finance Ministry

A nurse gives a volunteer an injection as part of a study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the US National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., in Binghamton, New York, July 27, 2020. (Hans Pennink/AP)

Israel expected to receive Moderna’s COVID vaccine by mid-2021

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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An empty classroom at a school in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hakerem on October 21, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Cabinet decides grades 1-4 to go back to school Sunday, salons to reopen

Students will be divided into separate pods; after-school programs also to resume; businesses that receive customers on one-by-one basis allowed to reopen

A young girl is tested for the coronavirus by a healthcare worker at a COVID-19 testing center set up at a basketball court, in Ramat Gan, October 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Percentage of positive COVID tests the lowest since June; serious cases drop

First grade students arrive for their first day of school at Tali Geulim school in Jerusalem on September 1, 2020. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Plan for 1st-2nd graders to attend school part-time lashed as ‘ludicrous’

People gather near the stage of a pro-Trump rally at Marine Park in Brooklyn, New York on October 25, 2020. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Analysis

At Brooklyn Trump rally, Orthodox anger at mayor and governor take center stage

Organizer of previous protest, which turned violent, mostly shunned at New York City park gathering; attendees stick to health guidelines but fume at restrictions

US sees fresh virus spike in Midwest, at worst possible time for Trump

By Thomas Beaumont

Biden accuses Trump of giving up in coronavirus fight

By Brian Knowlton

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio: I regret how I handled that Orthodox funeral in April

A worker checks the temperature of a customer at a store in the northern Arab Israeli town of Deir al-Asad on April 18, 2020. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Arab Israelis see new virus surge as weddings ‘return with a vengeance’

By Aaron Boxerman

‘Pandemic fatigue,’ low testing, and poor enforcement on gatherings blamed for coronavirus resurgence, which comes after communities successfully reined in infections

Illustrative: A woman stands next to a makeshift checkpoint in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on April 9, 2020. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Golan Druze town of Majdal Shams to be cordoned off as infections mount

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Analysis

Shoshanna Solomon

Screen test: Coronavirus is causing ‘academic Darwinism’ as campuses stay closed

Students struggle financially and socially, with the challenges bigger for those who are already disadvantaged; ‘if they fall, they will bring down all of us,’ warns one dean

Illustrative: Students seen at the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, October 27, 2014. (Miriam Alster/FLASh90)

A general view of closed stores on Jaffa Road in downtown Jerusalem on March 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Up to 60,000 Israeli businesses may close in 2021 amid COVID-19 fallout: report

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative image of wealth amid the coronavirus pandemic (Feverpitched; iStock by Getty Images)

Coronavirus pandemic strips 154 Israelis of millionaire status

By Shoshanna Solomon

Circles on a lawn at the Centro Deportivo Israelita, Mexico City's Jewish community center, drawn to guide social distancing. (Alan Grabinsky/ JTA)

Mexico City’s Deportivo center united its Jews; now the pandemic isolates them

By Alan Grabinsky

More Headlines

IDF soldiers perform contact tracing for coronavirus patients. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF’s virus squad, now fully operational, readies for feared winter outbreaks

By Judah Ari Gross

Nachman Ash at a welcoming ceremony for an Israeli military delegation in Japan on April 12, 2011. (IDF spokesperson)

Israel’s next coronavirus czar named as former IDF medical chief Nachman Ash

Illustrative: Clalit Health care workers take test samples for coronavirus at a drive-through site in Lod, on October 16, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israeli women’s soccer team sees COVID outbreak after Euro 2021 qualifier

Illustrative: A child receives a vaccination shot (Shutterstock/JTA)

Israeli company’s bid for universal flu vaccine fails in clinical trails

Protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu near his official residence in Jerusalem, on October 24, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Anti-Netanyahu demonstrators rally throughout the country for 18th week

An illustrative photo of an ultra-Orthodox wedding. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox wedding held in Arab town in effort to avoid detection

Screen capture from video of the coronavirus facilities at Hasharon Hospital, in Petah Tikva. (YouTube)

Coronavirus ward closed after Legionnaires’ bacteria found in water

Yeshiva students study in separation capsules in Jerusalem on September 2, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

1 in 5 students in yeshiva ‘capsule’ program contracted COVID-19

A groom is seen at a wedding at the Dead Sea, after police were called to disperse some of the guests to maintain health regulations, October 21, 2020 (video screenshot)

Groom nearly faints as police enforcing health rules clash with wedding party

Jerusalem's mayor meets with young Israeli twins going into first grade at a school in Jerusalem on September 1, 2020 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Experts pan ‘fundamentally flawed’ ministry report that kids are superspreaders

By Nathan Jeffay

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset plenum on October 19, 2020. (Shmulik Grossman/Knesset Spokesperson's Office)

Netanyahu’s secretary diagnosed with coronavirus

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men study Torah in small 'capsule' groups at the Ateret Shlomo Yeshiva in the city of Modiin Illit, August 24, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)1 in 5 students in yeshiva ‘capsule’ program contracted COVID-19 — TV

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