40% of current virus cases from Arab communities, expert says

Eran Segal, a computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, shares data on the latest virus cases on Twitter, breaking it down by community affiliation.

He says 40 percent of active cases are among Arab Israelis, who make up one-fifth of the population, with 45% of all those hospitalized from the Arab community.

Cases are sharply down among the ultra-Orthodox, who represent 11% of virus cases and 9% of hospitalizations, roughly equivalent to their proportion in the general population.

The rest of the cases — 49% of total virus cases and 45% of hospitalizations — are among the general population, he says, namely, Jewish Israelis who are not ultra-Orthodox.