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Battling COVID: Weekly Update

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

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An elderly man receives a vaccine (Prostock-Studio via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli expert’s plan to triple impact of 1st shots: Don’t vaccinate the elderly

By Nathan Jeffay

Immunizing superspreaders is the ‘only way’ to protect society with an initially limited supply of inoculations, says Israel Prize-winning physicist Shlomo Havlin

Aner Ottolenghi receives the Israeli-developed Coronavirus vaccination at the Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in Jerusalem on November 1, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Expert: With 500,000 vaccines, Israel could cut virus death rate by up to 65%

This May 4, 2020, photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine shows the first patient enrolled in Pfizer's COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine clinical trial at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore (Courtesy of University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP)

Health chief says only 100,000 to get vaccine in 1st quarter of 2021; PM fumes

By ToI Staff and Stuart Winer

Moderna's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tal Zaks. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Moderna’s top medical officer says Israel will be among first to get vaccine

By ToI Staff and Agencies

It’s ‘around the corner,’ says Tal Zaks, who is Israeli, estimating that shots will reach Jewish state early next year

ProfileWith new vaccine technology, small biotech firm Moderna battles mighty pandemic

By AFP and ToI Staff

A subject receives a shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine by Moderna for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle, March 16, 2020. (AP/Ted S. Warren, File)

Moderna says its coronavirus vaccine appears to be 94.5% effective

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Mikael Dolsten, Pfizer's chief scientist (Pfizer via JTA)

Interview

Mikael Dolsten, Jewish immigrant and top Pfizer scientist, hails US melting pot

By Gabe Friedman

The head scientist at company developing coronavirus vaccine is eager to point out role of new arrivals to America in crucial scientific breakthroughs

People walk by the Pfizer headquarters on November 9, 2020, in New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images/AFP)

Israel will reportedly pay much more than US, EU for Pfizer coronavirus vaccine

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 30, 2020. (Maxim Shemtov/ Pool/ AFP/ File)

Netanyahu speaks with Putin about buying Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine

Kremlin says leaders also discuss producing ‘Sputnik V’ shots in Israel; phone call comes after Israel strikes deal with Pfizer, in addition to Moderna

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Netanyahu lauds his pandemic success, but key government agencies are collapsing

S&P left Israel’s credit rating unchanged, citing strong state institutions and a fundamentally healthy economy. Both are now under assault by the political leadership

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the inauguration of a COVID-19 rapid testing center at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod on November 9, 2020. (Atef Safadi/ Pool/AFP)

Health Minister Yaakov Litzman speaks during a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on March 12, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90/File)

Yaakov Litzman to be appointed housing minister — again

Rabbi, is it OK for me be part of a human vaccine trial?

As long as you know the scientific protocols protecting trial participants are in place, the question is how could you not participate?!

After the vaccine

COVID-19 has brutally exposed the existing rifts in Israeli society: We need to learn to appreciate each other again; we need to find our common language

Coronavirus has redefined security

As with gender inequities in war, the pandemic has differential impact across society. Luckily, we have a blueprint for inclusive, fair crisis management

Francesco Patton

Custos of the Holy Land: ‘Coronavirus can teach us a lesson in unity’

The Catholic Church’s Guardian of the Christian Holy Places echoes Pope Francis’ call for our times: Help others, especially the weak, no matter our differences

Train tracks and the Ayalon highway in central Tel Aviv, with the Azrieli Towers as a backdrop, December 18, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel’s economy surges 38% in third quarter, after exit from first lockdown

By Shoshanna Solomon

The rebound in GDP in July-September 2020, compared to previous quarter, was led by surge in consumer spending, exports and investments, Statistics Bureau says

View of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

S&P affirms Israel’s strong credit rating, despite pandemic-battered economy

Self-employed Israelis protest at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, calling for financial support from the Israeli government in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, on July 11, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Employment Service warns of ‘chronic unemployment’ as layoff rate surges

By Shoshanna Solomon

Police officers patrol outside shops during a national lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, in Rosh Pina on November 8, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Facing steep opposition, Netanyahu scraps plan for nationwide curfew

Coronavirus czar tells ministers move would be ineffective, should not be used as a balance to allow lifting other restrictions; police say public will just find ways around it

Outgoing coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu speaks at his handover ceremony, November 12, 2020 (Screen grab/GPO)

Ending his tenure, virus czar says politicians hamstrung his efforts

An ultra-Orthodox boy walks with his father to a Talmud Torah school in the Sanhedrin neighborhood in Jerusalem, October 18, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Fines for ultra-Orthodox schools that violated lockdown canceled – report

People enjoy the beach in the resort city of Eilat, on November 6, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

As cases rise, Eilat and Dead Sea to greet Israeli tourists; strip malls reopen

No further easing expected until infection rate slows; Red Sea resort city, hotels at Ein Bokek designated ‘special tourist islands’

Illustrative: A classroom at an elementary school in Tel Aviv is empty after Israel closed schools ahead of a nationwide lockdown to halt the spread of the coronavirus, September 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

More schoolkids to resume studies, strip malls to reopen in low-infection areas

A gym during the pandemic (Drazen Zigic via iStock by Getty Images)

Huge US study pinpoints top virus hubs: All the venues Israel plans to open next

By Nathan Jeffay

More Headlines

Israeli Lotem Benbenishti, 28, poses as she works on her new job collecting trash on the beach at the Peleg Nature reserve in the Mediterranean coastal city of Netanya on October 21, 2020. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Amid pandemic, some Israelis find solace in forced career changes

By Jonah Mandel

Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting, April 17, 2016. (Flash90/Effi Sharir)

Katz snipNetanyahu edits finance minister out of tweet on strong economy

The Alaev family from the documentary film, 'The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev,' which will be screened at the digital version of the sixth Docu.Text Film Festival from the National Library of Israel (Courtesy Ori Ackerman)

Shhh! It's startingAuthors, poets, musical families headline National Library film fest

By Jessica Steinberg

Niv Nissim (left) and John Benjamin Hickey in Eytan Fox's new film, 'Sublet,' the opening film of the rescheduled digital Jerusalem Film Festival, opening December 10, 2020 (Courtesy Daniel Miller)

Screen timeReeling from virus, Jerusalem Film Fest to go online

By Jessica Steinberg

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