Business and Economy
As Israel’s medical establishment battles the pandemic, unemployment has shot up to more than 24 percent, up from 4 percent before the crisis.
With synagogues locked up, religious and day schools in abeyance, JCCs shuttered and Shabbat meals now nuclear family affairs, how can parents keep the Jewish flame alive?
A March 24 webinar about anti-Semitism hosted by a Massachusetts Jewish student group was interrupted by a white supremacist, who pulled down his shirt collar to show a swastika tattoo on his chest.
The health-care campus in Haifa will also receive two systems that can detect the presence of the virus.
The virus has claimed the lives of 12 Israelis, with 49 in serious condition • Next two weeks will be “critical,” said Health Minister Moshe Bar Siman-Tov, warning of high potential for further spread.
A spokesperson told “The New York Times” that the online retailer enables “customers with access to a variety of viewpoints.”
It will continue to bring back Israelis stranded abroad and use its passenger planes to transport cargo.
According to Gonen Usishkin, 85 percent of El Al’s workers are on unpaid leave, and the company submitted a solvency plan to the Finance Ministry.
Dr. Nirav R. Shah of Stanford University called for “21st-century tools” to combat the virus. “We need to do what Twitter did to the news cycle: Make it real time and democratic.”
“I am in daily contact with the prime minister. Right now, the ball is in the Knesset’s hands, and I am calling on the Knesset to rise above political considerations,” says Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron.
One element that everyone agrees will be critical for Jewish organizations at the frontlines of providing assistance to their communities is some assistance from the federal government.
Special measures are being taken to prevent spread of the coronavirus, including no contact between soldiers on the ground
