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Israel has led the way with COVID-19 vaccination and now it’s paying dividends. A new study of more than 40,000 Israelis over the age of 60, shows that a fourth vaccine protected 72 percent for death. The participants were all nursing home residents, where COVID can spread like wildfire. Published in the prestigious JAMA Internal …
As the Delta variant of COVID-19 is contracted by more and more people in Israel, experts are suggesting that those with compromised immune systems receive a third shot as a booster. It is now clear that many of those affected by the variant have been fully vaccinated. The good news is that these cases of …
Large numbers of health care workers in California, Texas, Ohio, and New York City are refusing to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, citing nervousness about the effectiveness and safety of the vaccine. They are also concerned about the way politics played a part in the development of the vaccine. Texas nurses say they are “vaccine …
At the beginning of the pandemic, with everyone under lockdown, the balloons emanating from Gaza, with explosive devices attached, seemed to stop for a while. Now they’re back. A cluster of balloons with an attached IED (improvised explosive device) was discovered on Shabbos morning in a field near Kibbutz Nir Oz, along Israel’s southern border …
You might think that Aliyah to Israel would be down what with the global coronavirus pandemic. You would be wrong. Thirty-four nurses who recently made Aliyah to Israel just received Israeli certification to continue their profession in Israel. This is especially helpful during COVID-19, and now that they are certified, hospital employment for the new …
In these uncertain times of the coronavirus, in many places in the world, no one knows if children will be going back to the classroom for the start of the new school year. While some school children did go back to physical classrooms, for instance, in Israel, it’s impossible to predict with any certainty, what …