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Battling COVID: Weekly Update

Thursday, February 11, 2021

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Vaccinated! Now what? An expert offers answers for Israel’s dosed and confused

Prof. Nadav Davidovitch says new variants have made returning to normal even harder, but he offers advice, and a peek at the possible road ahead, for a nation seeking immunity now

Illustrative: A grandson visits his grandmother at her home in Moshav Haniel in central Israel. She is wearing a face mask as a COVID-19 precaution. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Israelis recieve a COVID-19 vaccine at a Maccabi Health vaccination center at the Givatayim mall, outside of Tel Aviv, February 4, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Vaccinated people less likely to transmit coronavirus, Israeli study suggests

By Nathan Jeffay

Illustrative: Human respiratory system (magicmine; iStock by Getty Images)

Tel Aviv hospital hails 'a huge breakthrough'

New Israeli drug cured 29 of 30 moderate/serious COVID cases in days — hospital

Medicine developed at Ichilov moderates immune response, helps prevent deadly cytokine storm, researchers say; 29 of 30 phase 1 trial patients left hospital within 3-5 days

Hospital staff work in the coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on February 3, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

14 of 16 severe COVID patients in trial recover with experimental Israeli drug

An Israeli health worker waits for people to come get vaccinated at a largely empty Clalit Health Services vaccination station on February 7, 2021, in the northern city of Herzliya. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

As demand for vaccines plummets, Israel may resort to incentive programs

Proposals include sending health workers to offices of major companies, bonuses for convincing members of public to vaccinate; firms offer cash, mull bans on those without shots

Illustrative: An Israeli health worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at Clalit Health Services, in a gymnasium in the central Israeli city of Hod Hasharon, on February 4, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Vaccine drive slowed by 50%, official laments, blaming online ‘fake news’

Schoolteachers speak with students on the first day of school, during the coronavirus pandemic, in Tel Aviv on September 1, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Yavne mayor says schools off-limits to unvaccinated teachers

Analysis

Rachael Risby-Raz

Vaccinating Aaron

The day an ultra-Orthodox survivor of the horrors of Bergen Belsen blessed a Jewish convert from Australia, in the middle of the street in the holy city of Jerusalem

Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion seen at the opening of a drive-through site to collect samples for coronavirus testing, at the entrance to the East Jerusalem village of Jabel Mukaber August 18, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Jerusalem mayor warns unvaccinated Arabs they won’t be able to go to mosque

Amid concerns of low vaccination rates in city’s eastern sector, Moshe Lion tells local leaders that residents who aren’t inoculated may be prevented from entering some places

People receive a COVID-19 vaccine at a Maccabi Health Services center at the Givatayim mall, outside of Tel Aviv, January 20, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

As vaccination figures dip, Israel starts inoculating all over-16s

People receive a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from medical professionals at a coronavirus vaccination center in Givatayim, February 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

With contagion still frustratingly high, Israel discovers the limits of vaccines

By Laurie Kellman

Rabbi Yuval HaCohen Asherov (YouTube screenshot)

Videos by anti-vaxxer ‘rabbi to the stars’ said fueling vaccine distrust

Yuval Hacohen Asherov has released clips falsely claiming COVID vaccines cause infertility and damage the immune system, and can even be fatal

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz during a discussion on a bill to dissolve the parliament, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on May 29, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israeli minister proposes making vaccinations mandatory, is shot down

An Israeli receives a vaccine injection at a Clalit COVID-19 vaccination center in Holon on February 4, 2021. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Police start probing anti-vaxxers encouraging public to fake appointments

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis meets with Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi in Israel on February 8, 2021. (Miri Shimonovitz/Courtesy)

Israel, Greece seal deal to allow travel for vaccinated; UK, Estonia may be next

Agreement announced during Greek PM’s visit to Israel, likely won’t be enacted till late next month

Illustrative: A man walks through the almost empty Ben Gurion International Airport on January 24, 2021 (Flash90)

Cabinet extends near total shutdown of Ben Gurion Airport for two more weeks

The BIG shopping center in Ashdod, on February 7, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Some malls reopen, defying virus rules: ‘We’re not waiting for the government’

Photo illustration showing Chevra Kadisha workers preparing to carry the body of Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Haber who died from complications of coronavirus infection, at the Shamgar Funeral Home in Jerusalem, on April 23, 2020. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90; Illustration by Joshua Davidovich)

For 5,000 Israelis killed by COVID, a digital tapestry of stories ended too soon

By Jessica Steinberg

A first-grade student on his first day of school at Tali Geulim school in Jerusalem, on September 1, 2020. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Cabinet set to approve partial reopening of schools starting Thursday

Netanyahu spokeswoman says ministers expected to back plan that’ll allow students up to and including grade 4 to return to class in towns with low infection rates

Women get their hair styled at a salon in Tel Aviv on February 7, 2021, following the lifting of a nationwide lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Israel eases 3rd lockdown, lifting travel limit, restrictions on some businesses

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen during a vote to stave off a budget deadline and thus avert elections, at the Knesset on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)

‘Blood will be on your hands’: Recordings leak from chaotic cabinet meeting

Analysis

The hospital waiting room, in the time of COVID

We sat in those awkward chairs, surrounded by putty-colored walls , not wanting to be there, impossible to be anywhere else, longing to see our loved ones

COVID-19 funerals: The front-row seat I don’t want

Back then, my community sustained me through losses; now, I can’t be present to hug a friend or pass a tissue to someone sobbing behind me

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Flying over the lockdown

Stuck at home, I watched from my rooftop as wave after wave of birds headed south, soaring high overhead, powerful and magnificent. I was determined to find out what they were

Bruce Becker behind the counter at Max and Mina's. (Shira Feder/ JTA)

Lox of flavors

World-famous kosher NYC ice cream parlor helps lick COVID woes

Hundreds pack a street in Bnei Brak for the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Meir Wosner on February 7, 2021. (Screen capture/ Twitter)

Thousands pack Bnei Brak streets for funeral of senior rabbi who died of COVID

Police once again unable to prevent illegal crowds, this time at burial service for Rabbi Chaim Meir Wosner

A bus set alight by an ultra-Orthodox mob in the city of Bnei Brak, January 24, 2021. (Israel Police)

Haredi teen indicted for torching bus, attack on driver during Bnei Brak riot

MK Yair Lapid attends a Knesset plenary session at the Knesset in Jerusalem on August 24, 2020 (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

Lapid: Police should use water cannons to disperse illegal Haredi gatherings

An Orthodox Jewish woman is seen in a Brooklyn neighborhood on September 29, 2020 in New York. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Vaccines, variants leave US ultra-Orthodox women confused and afraid

More Headlines

A staff member works in the coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on February 3, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health officials report surge in babies infected by coronavirus

Peter Ben Embarek of the World Health Organization team holds up a chart showing pathways of transmission of the virus during a joint press conference held at the end of the WHO mission in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Feb. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

WHO: Unlikely coronavirus leaked from China lab, most likely jumped from species

A medical staff member prepares the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine at the Mignot Hospital in Le Chesnay, near Paris, on February 7, 2021 (ALAIN JOCARD / AFP)

South Africa halts use of AstraZeneca vaccine as worries grow over effectiveness

By Claire DOYEN

Electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles which cause COVID-19. (Hannah A. Bullock, Azaibi Tamin/CDC via AP)

ExplainerNew virus variants raise concern over COVID-19 reinfections

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE

Illustrative: A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection in Jerusalem, on January 28, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

US rabbis guessing if they’re eligible for vaccine in midst of chaotic rollout

By Hannah Dreyfus

Health care workers wait to administer nose-swab tests at the mobile COVID-19 testing site in Antwerp, Belgium, Oct. 20, 2020 (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

At Antwerp Haredi school, non-Jewish staff strike on failure to virus-test kids

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Likud MK David Bitan at the Knesset on January 15, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussil/Flash90)

‘I was close to death’: MK David Bitan leaves hospital after 2-month COVID fight

A view of a detention center in the Manhattan borough of New York City. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images via JTA)

Death of Jewish inmate from COVID-19 may get vaccines to New York prisoners

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Illustrative: Young members of the Hasidic community 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)

Anti-vaxxer rabbi fired by Chabad over social media posts

Illustrative: An elderly woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine, at a vaccination center in Tel Aviv, January 21, 2021 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

TV: Several vaccinated elderly tested positive for COVID, but had no symptoms

A shipment of the Russian Sputnik V vaccines allocated for the Palestinian Authority on February 4, 2021 (courtesy)

Palestinians receive 10,000 doses of Russian vaccine

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinian Authority Health Minister Mai Al-Kaila receives a shot of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday, February 3, 2021 (WAFA)

Palestinians start shots for medical staff with first vaccines, sent by Israel

By Aaron Boxerman

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