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‘The entire system got confused’: Israeli schools reopen, but many parents aren’t sending their kids back

JERUSALEM (JTA) — On the first day that Israel’s schools reopened nine weeks after closing to stop the spread of the coronavirus, Kalanit Taub’s 8-year-old daughter stayed home. As a … more

Sam Sokol | 5/14/20

We can’t take the bond between American and Israeli Jews for granted

Ambassador Dani Dayan, consul general of Israel in New York, last week shared a short message with JTA readers ahead of Yom Ha’Zikaron and Yom Ha’Atzmaut … more

AMBASSADOR DANI DAYAN | 4/30/20

A view of orthodox jewish people during Passover in Williamsburg in Brooklyn New York USA during coronavirus pandemic on April 11, 2020. (Photo by John Nacion/NurPhoto)

Mayor de Blasio is no enemy of Orthodox Jews. But others are weaponizing the coronavirus to vilify our community.

NEW YORK (JTA) — Among the most disturbing spectacles over the months since the coronavirus was unleashed on the world have been the attacks on haredi Orthodox Jews in both Israel and the United … more

Rabbi Avi Shafran | 4/30/20

Israel will be under lockdown for Memorial and Independence Days

JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israel will go into emergency lockdown on the country’s Memorial and Independence days in an effort to tamp down the coronavirus crisis, raising an outcry from bereaved … more

Marcy Oster | 4/22/20

Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day torch-lighting at Yad Vashem held without audience

JERUSALEM (JTA) – The coronavirus couldn’t dim the annual torch-lighting ceremony in Israel for Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah. In a … more

MARCY OSTER | 4/20/20

Netanyahu and Gantz sign agreement for ‘national emergency government’

JERUSALEM (JTA) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz signed a deal Monday [April 20] to form a “national emergency government” that keeps … more

MARCY OSTER | 4/20/20

Netanyahu limits gatherings to 2 people

JERUSALEM (JTA) – Gatherings of Israelis are limited to two people except nuclear family members living in the same home, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday [March 30] … more

MARCY OSTER | 4/5/20

1 in 3 residents of Israeli city Bnei Brak tested for coronavirus are positive

JERUSALEM (JTA) — One in three residents, or 34 percent, of the mostly haredi Orthodox city of Bnei Brak in central Israel who have been tested for the coronavirus are positive. The high … more

Marcy Oster | 4/1/20

Israel’s defense establishment is manufacturing ventilators

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s defense establishment has stopped making missiles and started manufacturing ventilators. The assembly line building the Ventway Sparrow ventilator model was set … more

Marcy Oster | 4/1/20

Israeli travellers at Ben Gurion airport, March 23, 2020.

The coronavirus hasn’t stopped immigration to Israel

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Aviva Karoly, an attorney originally from Queens, New York, and her husband, Tzvi, were raised in religious Zionist homes and always dreamed of living in Israel. In … more

Sam Sokol | 3/30/20