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Battling COVID: Weekly Update

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

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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)

Vaccinations may offer protection for 2 years or more, Israeli expert says

Professor Michal Linial says past reports of swift antibody decline were ‘much ado about nothing’; Health Ministry chief hopes to begin vaccinating Israeli teens in May

A COVID-19 vaccination center in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Vaccines shown to protect even those who don’t get them — Israeli study

By Nathan Jeffay

Annabelle Amery, left, with her fiance, Sergey Yanchenko. The two are waiting for Amery's vaccinated parents and sisters to be able to travel to Israel for their wedding (Courtesy Annabelle Amery)

With parents locked out of country, fuming immigrants plan Knesset protest

By Jessica Steinberg

Numerous English-speakers who moved to Israel are finding their families are being barred from visiting for weddings, births, surgeries and more, with no rhyme or reason

Actress Shira Haas during the filming of the third season of 'Shtisel,' which is coming to Netflix on March 25, 2021 (Courtesy Vered Adir)

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Illustrative: A girl takes a coronavirus test. (ChiccoDodiFC via iStock)

Super-speedy Israeli COVID test gets European approval; airport rollout planned

By Nathan Jeffay

SpectraLIT eliminates the need for complex lab equipment by giving relatively accurate results after just 20 seconds of analysis, possibly aiding resumption of international travel

A Clalit vaccination center in Jerusalem, on February 25, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Pfizer says working on a new deal to supply more vaccines to Israel

Analysis

The skies reopened. Why can’t Grandma come?

Immigrants in Israel are cut off from the family members they need by their sides at the most critical moments in their lives

Israeli students go to school in Yad Mordechai, March 07, 2021 (Flash90)

Virus czar: We expect to start vaccinating children within weeks

Ash says waiting for FDA and local approval after Pfizer’s positive results in trials for kids 12-15; says officials looking to restore full classes in schools, cancel pod system

Illustrative: Students wearing face masks return to school in Yad Mordechai, on March 7, 2021. (Flash90)

2 million students return to schools, not yet fully reopened

Israelis, some wearing protective face masks and some not, at Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Square on April 4, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Virus czar predicts outdoor mask mandate will be dropped next week

Medical technicians test passengers for COVID-19 at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on March 8, 2021. (Flash90)

New COVID-19 cases drop to lowest weekly level since last June

With economy largely open and most Israelis vaccinated, positive test rate falls to 1%; serious infections hit a three-month low

A Clalit vaccination center in Jerusalem, on February 25, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Vaccination stagnation: Only about 6,000 Israelis a day now getting first shots

By Nathan Jeffay

United Hatzalah medical workers test a patient for COVID-19 in Jerusalem on February 10, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

COVID reinfection hits 1 in a 1,000, variants may fuel it, Israeli study finds

By Nathan Jeffay

Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles invested in remote learning technology during the pandemic. In the fall, students located in Arizona will begin to attend Shalhevet classes via video. (Courtesy/Tushar Dwivedi via JTA)

Students in Arizona, teachers in LA: Jewish high school plans post-COVID future

Soldiers at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl Military Cemetery on Memorial Day, Yom Hazikaron, April 28, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90) (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

In return to normal, families can visit fallen troops’ graves on Memorial Day

By Judah Ari Gross

But Defense Ministry asks all others to stay away from military cemeteries that day; national memorial ceremonies to be held as usual, but with fewer guests

Israeli medical staff cheer an Israeli airforce aerobatic team as they fly over Shaarei Tsedek hospital in Jerusalem on Israel's 72nd Inependence Day, April 29, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israeli Air Force’s Independence Day flyover returns after pandemic break

By Emanuel Fabian

Yazidi newborn Hena arrives in Israel from Iraqi Kurdistan with her uncle to undergo life-saving heart surgery at Sheba Hospital (courtesy Shevet Achim)

'When she arrived at the hospital in Tel Aviv we rejoiced'

After agonizing wait, Israel lets in Yazidi baby for life-saving treatment

By Lazar Berman

Newborn Hena from Iraq reaches Sheba Hospital; eight more Kurdish babies requiring emergency surgery to enter from Jordan on Tuesday

2 young Gambians who had heart surgery in Israel return home after 2-month delay

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron, speaking at the Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society organized by the Israel Democracy Institute, December 17, 2019 (Michal Fattal)

Israel may need tax hike to cut virus-swollen debt, Bank of Israel says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Pandemic spotlights absence of economic safety net that can be rolled out quickly when needed, central bank says, and lack of adequate data infrastructure for targeted assistance

Illustrative image of a hacker (stevanovicigor; iStock by Getty Images)

Cybersecurity attacks surge during pandemic as Israel startup industry thrives

By Shoshanna Solomon

Analysis

Work-from-home nation

So much of that now empty office space in Israel’s cities could be put to better use… like apartments!

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Illustrative: Israelis march in protest against then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the entrance to Jerusalem, on January 30, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

High Court: Protest limits during 2nd lockdown were unlawful, all fines annulled

Medical technicians test passengers for COVID-19 at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on March 8, 2021. (Flash90)

Ministers extend COVID test requirement for travelers entering Israel

People wait to receive a dose of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine at the SSE Arena which has been converted into a temporary COVID-19 vaccination center, in Belfast, Northern Ireland on March 29, 2021. (Paul Faith / AFP)

7 UK AstraZeneca recipients die of clots; regulator: Benefits outweigh risks

Shirel Hilel (Screen capture: Channel 13 news)

Hospital blamed over women’s death from heart inflammation after vaccination

Illustrative: A man in a mask and protective gear stands near a banner depicting a Holocaust-era yellow Star of David, in Tel Aviv on April 21, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)

Some US, UK conservatives liken vaccine passports to Holocaust yellow star

An Israeli laboratory worker is pictured as she checks serological tests at the Leumit Health Care Services laboratory in Or Yehuda, near Tel Aviv on June 29, 2020. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Serology tests scaled down to encourage vaccination – report

People walk past closed stores in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City, on October 9, 2020. (Angela Weiss / AFP)

Pandemic gives some Haredi New York Jews space to leave their community

By Peter HUTCHISON

Medical technicians test passengers for the coronavirus at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 8, 2021. (Flash90)

Citing virus, CDC warns against travel to Israel, alongside West Bank and Gaza

By ToI Staff and AFP

A woman wearing a face mask attends Easter Sunday Mass led by Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem, April 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Singing hymns through masks: World’s Christians mark another pandemic Easter

By Frances D'Emilio

Pieter Heijs shows his product at his Hollandia Matzes factory in Enschede, the Netherlands, March 19, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Dutch matzah factory gifts Passover cracker to 35,000 schoolchildren

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The Bedouin city of Rahat in southern Israel, on April 8, 2019. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

65 people diagnosed with COVID after attending mass Bedouin wedding

An IDF soldier at a temporary checkpoint in Jerusalem to check that Israelis are not violating restrictions meant to contain the coronavirus, April 2, 2020. (Nati Shohat//Flash90)

IDF troops allowed to go maskless outdoors in new pilot program

By Judah Ari Gross

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