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Battling COVID: Weekly Update

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

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Shlomi Tova with a nurse in a coronavirus ward at Galilee Medical Center (Shlomi Tova)

He lost his mom but survived the virus. Now ‘long COVID’ is wrecking him again

By Nathan Jeffay

Shlomi Tova, 46, hoped for health on leaving the pain and isolation of virus ward, where adults ‘cry like babies,’ but he’s one of many crushed by seemingly unshakable aftereffects

Analysis

Audrey N. Glickman

Garlic, chicken soup, and common sense

I’m a Jewish mother. I think chicken soup cures all ills. But rapid testing, N-95 masks, contact tracing, and distancing do an even better job against COVID-19

Medical workers draw blood from volunteers participating in a trial of a coronavirus vaccine at the Budenko Main Military Hospital outside Moscow, Russia, July 15, 2020. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Israel’s Hadassah vies to become a regional hub for Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine

By Nathan Jeffay

Jerusalem hospital turns cheerleader for ‘Sputnik V,’ sparking criticism from some experts; former vaccine assessor ‘unhappy’ at hospital potentially profiting off shots

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

Israel to receive Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine as early as December – report

Analysis

Waste and want: Dumpsters overflow with the food poor Israelis can’t afford

If schoolkids learn that dumping food is wrong, they’ll bring that message home, discipline their families gently, and reform the country naturally, from within

A medic at a COVID-19 ward at the Galilee Medical Center during the height of Israel's coronavirus crisis. (Shlomi Tova)

Analysis

Mostly ‘shining green’: Experts say Israel not on the cusp of a 3rd COVID wave

The transmission rate has been rising but the full picture is less alarming than widely suggested, with outbreaks highly localized

Illustrative: Children enter the Beit Hakerem school in Jerusalem on November 24, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Daily cases swell to highest level in a month as grades 5-6 return to class

Passengers arrive at Heathrow Airport, September 8, 2020 (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

UK’s virus quarantine rules define Israel, Jerusalem as two different areas

Foreign Office notes it doesn’t recognize Israeli sovereignty in capital and so uses separate categories for travel advice; Conservative Friends of Israel: Fix ‘offensive’ stance

Aircraft are seen at London's Heathrow Airport, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020 (Steve Parsons/PA via AP)

With Israel’s morbidity down, UK no longer requires travelers to isolate

Palestinian children attend a kindergarten while wearing face shields due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in Gaza City, on November 23, 2020. (Mohammed ABED / AFP)

Health official warns COVID-19 ‘getting out of control’ in Gaza Strip

By AFP and ToI Staff

Number of confirmed cases in densely populated, Hamas-controlled enclave stands at 15,457, including 69 deaths

View of the Knesset plenum on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)

Amid virus crisis, Knesset unanimously votes to freeze pay raises for lawmakers

Opposition leader Lapid calls automatic annual salary increase for Knesset members ‘scandalous,’ urges MKs to ‘strengthen public trust in the Knesset’

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a vote at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

‘This is going nowhere’: Gantz, Netanyahu shout at each other at cabinet meeting

By Michael Bachner

Education Minister Yoav Gallant visits schoolchildren on the first day of the school year in Mevo Horon, September 1, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/AFP)

Coronavirus cabinet approves plan to reopen schools in most areas

Masterpieces by Renoir, Pissarro, Gauguin and Monet that were borrowed by a South Korean museum from the Israel Museum and recently returned to the Jerusalem institution in November 2020 after a prolonged stay due to the coronavirus (Courtesy Israel Museum)

After loan extended by COVID-19, South Korea returns art masterpieces to Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative image of working from home, video conferencing and a laptop (asiandelight; iStock by Getty Images)

Work from home raises productivity but may be blighting startup culture – survey

By Shoshanna Solomon

Report paints dual picture as 87% of Israeli startups set up remote operations: Lower costs and a ‘flatter’ world of more opportunities, but teamwork, innovation, loyalty suffer

Microsoft's new campus in Herzliya, Israel, inaugurated in November 2020 (Amit Geron)

Amid shift to work-from-home, Microsoft inaugurates gigantic new Herzliya campus

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: To create a pre-recorded online service, Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann, center, and musicians and singers from Mishkan Chicago recorded the songs and prayers of the High Holidays in August. (Courtesy of See3 Digital Events/ via JTA)

Chicago Jewish community battered by 2nd wave of COVID is ‘pumping its brakes’

The closing event at Chabad's annual conference of worldwide emissaries was filmed in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and streamed around the globe. (Bentzi Sasson/Chabad.org via JTA)

Nixed by virus, annual gathering of Chabad rabbis becomes never-ending Zoom meet

Unable to attend Hasidic movement’s yearly get-together due to coronavirus outbreak, emissaries from across the globe hold online session that continues for days and days

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