Eli Beer, founder and president of United Hatzalah, saying the Shema upon arriving in Israel after battling COVID-19 for six weeks at a hospital in Miami, Fla. Credit: United Hatzalah.
United Hatzalah’s founder and president, who returned to Israel after surviving a six-week battle against COVID-19 in a Miami hospital.
Marc Provisor Director of Security Projects for the One Israel Fund organization joins Josh Hasten on this week’s edition of Israel Uncensored. Provisor describes what its like to fight Jihadist terror with the additional challenges brought on by the Coronavirus pandemic. Hear how One Israel Fund continues to operate during these difficult times providing creative solutions towards fighting terror, while enhancing the lives of Israelis, especially those in living in Judea and Samaria, and other border communities.
The arrival of supplies to Cedar Sinai Park Assisted Living in Portland, Ore., April 2020. Credit: Courtesy.
With more than 1 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date, many of the hardest-hit states include those with large Jewish populations—New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois, California. As a result, Jewish nonprofit organizations in the heath-care arena, including nursing homes and assisted-living centers, hospice facilities and those who provide homecare for Holocaust survivors and other vulnerable populations, have witnessed overwhelming fatality rates as a result of the pandemic.
Delegates at the San Remo conference in 1920. Source: YouTube.
Exactly 100 years ago this week, World War I allied powers including the British Empire, Italy, France and Japan, along with the United States serving as an observer nation, met in San Remo, Italy, and ratified the 1917 Balfour Declaration, calling for a national home for the Jewish people in “Palestine.”
On the eve of Israel’s Yom Ha’zikaron (Memorial Day) for Israeli soldiers and terror victims, Josh Hasten interviews Adena Mark Kapon, whose mother Sara Blaustein HY”D was murdered in a 2001, Gush Etzion terror attack. Hear how Adena, who says she remembers her mother each and every, drew inspiration from her mother’s memory and made Aliyah with her family to join the Zionist endeavor. She also shares how she personally commemorates Memorial Day each year, and how this year will be somewhat different as a result of Corona.
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David and Eda Schottenstein in 2010, dedicating the Holtzberg Administration Center
Following the successful sale of his Privé Revaux company last month, entrepreneur David Schottenstein and his wife Eda have dedicated the main entrance of the new Mayanot World Center in Jerusalem, Israel.
The Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies is overwhelmed with gratitude towards our great friends and partners Mr. David and Eda Schottenstein for their extreme generosity, in dedicating the main entrance of our new World Center in Jerusalem.
Mayanot Yeshiva in Jerusalem has not allowed coronavirus lockdown to stop the learning of Torah, moving its classes online for students.
We are truly living in unprecedented times. The Israeli Ministry of Health has placed the entire country on a near total lockdown. Schools, restaurants, malls, and places of entertainment, have all been closed. And as of this writing, the ministry is encouraging all Israelis to stay at home 24/7, besides for trips to the supermarket, pharmacy, or any other purposes which constitute an emergency. This is all the result of a tiny microbe, the COVID – 19 or Coronavirus, which has wreaked havoc on the world community.
In the age of Corona, this year’s annual Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day in Israel will be commemorated at home through technology. To discuss this reality and to share his story of survival with Josh Hasten, is Walter Bingham, who at 96, is the world’s oldest radio talk-show host. Hear how he survived Kristallnacht as a young teen, and was fortunate to make it to England on a Kindertransport. Bingham eventually made Aliyah where he continues to this day, his career in journalism. Don’t miss the interview with Bingham – a truly inspiring Jewish treasure and hero.
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On today’s Israel Uncensored with Josh Hasten, an very special interview with Rabbi Guy Avihod, who runs the Haboydem second hand clothing stores in Jerusalem, which gives adults with mental illness in the community a springboard to return to work. Avihod says that while we are essentially at home and in quarantine with our nuclear families this Passover, this event is not unprecedented. He explains that on the first Passover in history, the Jews were also quarantined in their homes as G-d carried out the plague of the firstborn in Egypt, sparking the beginning of the Exodus.
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Efrat residents at home under quarantine due to the coronavirus (COVID-19), March 30, 2020. Photo by Josh Hasten.
Less than 20 kilometers south of Jerusalem in the Gush Etzion bloc, the community of Efrat and its 13,000 inhabitants made headlines this week as having one of the highest levels of coronavirus-infected residents percentage-wise in the country.