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Battling COVID: Weekly Update

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

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Israelis wear protective face masks as they walk in Tel Aviv on March 11, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Cops said instructed not to enforce mask-wearing outdoors

Mandatory mask rule remains in effect, but TV report suggests enforcement in public will be reduced ‘to zero’ as focus shifts to quarantine violations

Passengers seen at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on March 8, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel warns citizens they could be targeted by Iran, as outbound tourism renews

NSC advises caution following bombing at New Delhi embassy, names recent Gulf partners UAE and Bahrain among countries risky for Israelis

View of the empty Taba border crossing between Israeli and Egypt, as it seen from the southern Israeli city of Eilat, January 28, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel’s border crossing to Egypt reopens for first time since COVID-19 outbreak

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative image: Pills. Israel's Oramed Pharmaceuticals and India-based Premas Biotech are working on a vaccine pill to inoculate against COVID-19 (schlosann via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli-made oral COVID vaccine found to generate antibodies in pigs

By Nathan Jeffay

Jerusalem-based scientist expects approval for humans within 6 months, says advance could simplify vaccination drives and even allow home vaccination using pills sent by mail

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel PodcastPodcast: Daily Briefing Mar. 30 – What does ‘kingmaker’ Mansour Abbas stand for?

InterviewTapped to open for Robert Plant, she didn't know who he was

Life is a miracle: Eclectic LA musician belts thankful song after COVID struggle

Classically-trained violinist Lili Haydn won a Grammy last year with band Opium Moon; her new album ‘More Love,’ named for its title song, drops March 26

A medical worker of UNRWA gives a shot of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine at UNRWA's clinic in the Rafah, in the southern Gaza, on March 3, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Gaza enters second coronavirus wave, with 25% of tests coming back positive

By Aaron Boxerman

For weeks, the coastal enclave enjoyed a lull, even as as a surge in infections shook the West Bank. But with thousands of new cases, a new wave is officially here

Palestinian Health worker takes samples for coronavirus at a health center in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 16, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Report: Thousands in Gaza to get vaccine to be able to cross Israel to West Bank

By ToI Staff and AFP

Chinese Ambassador Guo Wei (L) speaks with Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila during the unloading of a shipment of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines donated by the Chinese government in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, on March 29, 2021. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP)

Palestinian Authority receives 100,000 doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine

By Aaron Boxerman

Hikers near the Sea of Galilee, Israel's largest freshwater lake (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israelis throng national parks and nature reserves on 1st day of Passover

1,000 celebrate Passover Seder in nature reserve parking lots; sites from north to south fill up with hikers as Israelis enjoy the cool weather

Illustrative photo of an Israeli family celebrating the Passover holiday in Moshav Yashresh on March 27, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Infections fall further as Israel marks first major holiday after lockdown eased

An ultra-Orthodox man dips cooking utensils in boiling water to remove remains of leaven in preparation for the upcoming holiday of Passover in Ashdod, March 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

For Israelis, this year, Passover marks a celebration of freedom from virus

By Ilan Ben Zion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to address supporters after the March 23 elections, at his Likud party's election HQ in Jerusalem, early on Wednesday, March. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Op-ed

David Horovitz and op-ed

The man who divided Israel

Netanyahu had so many advantages this time, but had alienated so many voters. Attracted and repelled, they denied him a clear victory. But only his rivals can force his defeat

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom worker administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Holocaust survivor Yaffa Balaban, 95, at her apartment in Beit Tovei Hair retirement residence in Jerusalem on January 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Germany funds plan to help Holocaust survivors around world access vaccines

By Nathan Jeffay

Claims Conference isn’t providing COVID shots, but will aid 190,000 survivors with booking and provide transportation with medical assistance to the housebound

Analysis

This year, I learned the pain and beauty of praying outside

Even as the temperatures dropped, our need for community is so fundamental that our numbers have grown

A group photo at the Jewish Community of Taiwan's 2021 Purim party. (Archi Chang/ via JTA)

Taiwan’s small Jewish community gears up for big Passover party — sans masks

By Gabe Friedman

More Headlines

Illustrative: A pregnant woman at a hospital. (iStock via Getty Images)

Pregnant mother and unborn baby die after contracting COVID-19

Syringes filled with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a pop up site in the Queens borough of New York, March 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Pfizer and Moderna vaccines 90% effective in preventing COVID, US finds

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of travelers arriving at Heathrow Airport in London, January 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

UK tourists may be limited to highly vaccinated countries…like Israel – report

People walk on Jaffa street in downtown Jerusalem on March 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Overruling cabinet, Knesset decides to let Shin Bet COVID tracking expire

People receive a COVID-19 vaccine injection at a mobile vaccine station on the beach in Tel Aviv, February 20, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Health Ministry chief: Cabinet squabbling endangers vaccine drive

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A man wearing a mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus walks past a vacant boutique for rent in Paris, March 25, 2021 (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Europe’s recovery hopes take a hit as virus surges

By Daniel Aronssohn and eve szeftel

Jewish worshipers cover themselves with prayer shawls as they pray in front of the Western Wall, during the priestly blessing event of the Passover holiday, March 29, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Thousands at Western Wall for traditional Passover priestly blessing ceremony

Patients affected by COVID-19 at a field hospital set up at a sports gym, in Santo Andre, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, on March 26, 2021 (Miguel SCHINCARIOL / AFP)

As daily virus deaths near 4,000, worst may lie ahead for Brazil

By David Biller and Mauricio SAVARESE

A medical worker prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Tudor Ranch in Mecca, California, January 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Pfizer begins vaccine trial on children aged 11 and younger

By AFP

El Al planes parked at Ben Gurion Airport in Lod, Israel, on August 03, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

El Al posts massive half-a-billion-dollar loss in 2020 amid pandemic

By Shoshanna Solomon

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