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Fast Forward Israel’s health minister tests positive for coronavirus
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Health Minister Yaakov Litzman has been diagnosed with the coronavirus. The announcement that Litzman and his wife tested positive for the deadly virus came late Wednesday night. Litzman, 71, has mild symptoms, according to reports. He is continuing to work from home, his office told Israeli media. The entire Health Ministry…
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Fast Forward Western Wall stones sanitized after notes removed
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Western Wall stones were cleaned and sanitized ahead of Passover. Every year, the prayer notes tucked between the stones in the wall are removed at Passover and before the High Holidays, and buried with other sacred papers according to Jewish law in the cemetery on the Mount of Olives. This year,…
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Israel News Lovers of street protest, Israelis take their anger to computer screens, cars, balconies
Israelis sheltering at home this week against the coronavirus were jostled by several minutes of loud clanging coming from balconies in Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem. Demonstrators were crashing pots and pans. In typical times, pro-democracy activists would have stormed Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square. But with Israel’s strict restrictions on gathering in the time of…
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Fast Forward Is a unity government nearing in Israel?
JERUSALEM (JTA) — As his Blue and White party was on the verge of breaking up, its leader, Benny Gantz, was elected speaker of the Israeli Knesset on Thursday evening. The split in his party is over a debate about joining a unity government led at first by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. What does it…
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Fast Forward Israel Is Going Through A Constitutional Crisis
(JTA) — Besides the coronavirus epidemic, Israel has another crisis on its hands. It’s inside the government and only tangentially related to COVID-19. Here’s the short version: After Israel’s latest election earlier this month — its third in a year — Benny Gantz and his center-left coalition seem closer than ever to garnering enough support…
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News Israeli EMS leader intubated in Miami hospital with coronavirus: health minister sidelined us
Eli Beer had been traveling around the globe trying to raise money to help Israeli patients who fall gravely ill with coronavirus. Then he became one of them. Beer, 46, is the founder and president of United Hatzalah, a non-profit, volunteer Emergency Medical Service organization. A week ago, he was hospitalized in Miami with what…
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Fast Forward Fact check: Israel is not about to release a coronavirus vaccine
Despite rumors swirling online to the contrary, Israel has not developed and tested a vaccine for coronavirus. The rumor appears to have started with a Facebook post that read, “A vaccine for CoronaVirus has just been approved in Israel. It is being produced in hundreds of thousands as we speak and expected to be in…
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Israel News That Israeli mom whose rant-video about distance-learning went viral? She’s a special-ed teacher.
The little video doesn’t feature a celebrity, just an anonymous Israeli woman in sunglasses. It lasts less than 90 seconds, and has no action — just her, straight to camera, recorded in her car of all places, ranting about the new reality of parenting in a pandemic. You’ve probably seen it: it has racked up…
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