Live Update 
From the Liveblog of
Sunday, August 8, 2021
From the Liveblog of
Sunday, August 8, 2021
Sex offender rabbi Eliezer Berland hospitalized with COVID, on ventilator
Rabbi Eliezer Berland arrives for a hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, on February 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Eliezer Berland, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi who has been convicted of sexual offenses and of defrauding his own followers, has caught the coronavirus and is hospitalized, Hebrew media reports.
The 83-year-old Berland is on a ventilator at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, the reports say.
He is set to return to prison in October after being convicted of fraud in a plea deal last month and being sentenced to 18 months, from which his time in custody thus far will be deducted.
