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Battling COVID: Weekly Update

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

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Sheba Medical Center nurse Hala Litwin injects a dose into Israel's first human test subject, Segev Harel, as part of trials for Israel's experimental coronavirus vaccine, BriLife, on November 1, 2020. (Defense Ministry)

‘I feel great’: Israel’s first vaccine volunteer heads home from the hospital

By Nathan Jeffay

24 hours after receiving the first dose at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Segev Harel is discharged, hopes ‘we will bring the vaccine to Israel and to the whole world’

Sheba Medical Center nurse Hala Litwin injects a dose into Israel's first human test subject, Segev Harel, as part of trials for Israel's experimental coronavirus vaccine, BriLife, on November 1, 2020. (Defense Ministry)

First 2 volunteers injected with Israeli virus vaccine, kicking off human trials

Segev Harel, the first volunteer for trials for Israel's coronavirus vaccine. (Sheba Medical Center)

Volunteer to receive 1st Israeli vaccine shot hails ‘historic opportunity’

By Nathan Jeffay and ToI Staff

A coronavirus ward at Galilee Medical Center (Ancho Gosh Jini Photo Agency via Galilee Medical Center)

Explainer

COVID-19 antibodies vanish fast. That doesn’t mean mass reinfection looms

Experts say disappearing antibodies don’t spell the end of immunity, following seemingly alarming British study

Analysis

A cure for ignorance? US Orthodox doctors battle both COVID and disinformation

With coronavirus increasingly politicized and amid shifting recommendations, physicians find themselves struggling to maintain their communities’ trust in medical professionals

Illustrative: Members of the Jewish Orthodox community gather around a journalist as he conducts an interview on a street corner, October 7, 2020, in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Illustrative: Members of the Orthodox Jewish community wait for school buses to collect them in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, October 8, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Schools in NY Orthodox neighborhoods can reopen under new testing plan

Illustrative: Groups of protesters gather in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park to denounce lockdowns of their neighborhood due to a spike in COVID-19 cases on October 7, 2020 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Senior Satmar rabbi denounces Brooklyn anti-lockdown rallies

Illustrative: A scientist inspects water in a creek (kosmos111 via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli experts make global stink over coronavirus surviving in treated sewage

By Nathan Jeffay

Researchers issue call for sewage plants worldwide to disinfect wastewater, lest pumping it into natural water sources lead to infections among animals or humans

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Analysis

Michal Cotler-Wunsh

Alone in a pandemic: Immigrants in Israel need to see loved ones

The corona restrictions on visits from abroad are too narrow and too specific for the varied needs of olim. I’m working to change that.

Rabbi Yisroel Hager, the head of Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty, speaks to his followers in the northern city of Safed on August 14, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Leading Hasidic rabbi denounces ‘Jews who snitch’ over violations of virus rules

Vizhnitz Rabbi Yisroel Hager says closure of ultra-Orthodox schools caused ‘unbearable spiritual and material damage,’ vows they won’t be shuttered again

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky attends a campaign event for the ultra-Orthodox Degel HaTorah party in the northern city of Safed on February 26, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

‘Nobody here is crazy’: Top rabbi’s grandson defends continuing study amid COVID

Operators at an ERAN call center. (Courtesy of ERAN)

Pandemic of loneliness, anxiety: Crisis hotline says suicide calls have doubled

By Nathan Jeffay

Palestinians gather to protest against the French president, in the al-Aqsa mosque compound, in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 30, 2020. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Over 12,000 packed onto Temple Mount for Friday prayers, with little enforcement

Police reject accusations from Jerusalem municipality that they turned blind eye to mass crowding at flashpoint holy site

Members of the Druze community carry the body of late spiritual leader Sheikh Abu Zain Al-Din Hassan Halabi, during his funeral in the Golan Heights border town of Majdal Shams on October 30, 2020, despite a nationwide ban on mass gatherings due to the coronavirus. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Defying restrictions, thousands hold funeral for Druze leader who died of COVID

Druze Israelis break into Ziv Medical Center in Safed to snatch the body of Sheikh Abu Zain Al-Din Hassan Halabi on October 30, 2020. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Followers of Druze sheikh snatch his body from hospital to hold mass funeral

People shop at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, 2 November, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel virus cases up, positive test rate falls; jail says 65 prisoners infected

Health Ministry figures show 774 new cases with a 2.3% positivity rate on Monday as testing levels also increase; dozens of inmates at Gilboa Prison confirmed to have coronavirus

School is back in session for grades 1-4 as lockdown eased; synagogues reopen

Knesset vote on higher fines for virus violations stalled amid Haredi opposition

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

As virus cases rise, task force warns downward trend in infections may be over

Illustrative photo of doctors in an operating room at a hospital in Jerusalem. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

In pandemic’s shadow, health coverage decisions move from doctors to politicians

Netanyahu and Gantz’s refusal to pass a state budget means the expert committee that chooses which new treatments to add to the national insurance plan cannot do its job

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The Grumpy Roadsters, a group of New York City bike riders doing their Alyn hospital fundraising ride for 2020 in the Berkshires of Massachusetts this year, rather than in Israel (Courtesy Alyn)

The Brighter SideAlyn riders keep wheels close to home as rehab hospital renovates for COVID-19

By Jessica Steinberg

An Israeli laboratory worker conducts serological tests for coronavirus at the Leumit Health Care Services laboratory in Or Yehuda, near Tel Aviv on June 29, 2020. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Health Ministry announces Israeli-developed faster PCR tests for virus diagnosis

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein speaks during a press conference at Airport City, outside Tel Aviv, on September 17, 2020. (Flash90)

Virus quarantine to be shortened from 14 to 12 days, health minister says

Coronavirus czar Prof. Ronni Gamzu at the Jerusalem Municipality, on October 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Outgoing coronavirus czar calls for mass testing in Arab communities

A man sleeps on a public bench next to closed shops on Hillel Street in downtown Jerusalem, on September 23, 2020, during a nationwide lockdown. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israeli study finds paying off debt, not spending, is main use of stimulus cash

FILE -- People take part in a 'Resist and Act for Freedom' protest against a mandatory coronavirus vaccine, wearing masks, social distancing and a second lockdown, in Trafalgar Square, London, Sept. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Online forums for anti-vaxxers are ‘hotbeds’ of anti-Semitism, UK report finds

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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