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.
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.”
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.
Israeli youths during a remote learning session at their home in Moshav Yashresh on March 18, 2020. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.
After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shut down the country’s schools and universities until at least after Passover, Israeli parents, like their counterparts in other countries shut down by the COVID-19 virus, suddenly found themselves confronted with the task of overseeing their children’s education.
Commander of the Jerusalem District Police Doron Yedid with former Knesset member Yehuda Glick at the Western Wall Plaza near the Mughrabi Bridge in the Old City of Jerusalem after clashes broke out on the Temple Mount and around its gates, as Jews mark Tisha B’Av and Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha, on Aug. 11, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
The former Likud Party Knesset member tells JNS that the incident epitomizes the fact that non-Muslims are discriminated against at the holy site in Jerusalem.
Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich on the first ride of the the new high-speed train between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Dec. 18, 2019. To help tourists and east local traffic congestion, he announced its future extension to the Old City, February 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
“Jews from around the world will be able to land at Ben-Gurion and in a short amount of time be at the Western Wall to be spiritually uplifted. It’s the perfect blend of modern technology and ancient spirituality,” said Rabbi Steve Burg, CEO of Aish HaTorah.
Baseball Team Israel celebrates after qualifying for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Photo by Margo Sugarman.
“We are about to build a field and complex in Beit Shemesh, which will become Israel’s national baseball stadium. My focus is to bring awareness that we are building baseball here,” said Jordan Alter, the new president of the Israel Association of Baseball.
Faith-based pro-Israel parliamentarians in Jerusalem for the Israel Allies Foundation’s (IAF) annual Chairman’s Conference hand a resolution calling for elected officials worldwide to oppose the BDS movement to Likud Party Knesset member Gideon Sa’ar, December 2019. Credit: Jerusalem East Gate Foundation.
Much of the three-day Israel Allies Foundation’s (IAF) annual Chairman’s Conference focused on combating the recent European Court of Justice ruling calling for the labeling of Jewish products from Judea and Samaria as being made in “Israeli settlements,” as opposed to “Made in Israel.”
“Thanksgiving isn’t a Jewish holiday, so for lone soldiers, it can be difficult being away from family and friends,” says Yehoshua Sigala of the Lone Soldier Center, with offices in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, November 2019. Photo by Yonit Schiller.
As many as 1,000 lone soldiers in Israel had the chance to celebrate the holiday with food, friends … and even a little football.