Published: 24 March 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Burial society gears up for COVID-19 funerals, as health officials lay out rules (Times of Israel)
Ministry initially bans religious funeral rite for coronavirus victims, then backtracks; chevra kadisha volunteers in protective gear, being trained to deal with virus casualties
Amid coronavirus, Israel modifies funeral rituals for first victim (Washington Post)
Crowds of Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox clash with cops enforcing virus lockdown (Times of Israel)
Three arrested, one officer lightly injured in Mea’Shearim clashes, cops decried as Nazis, amid crackdown on those violating restrictions aimed at curbing spread of disease
Health Ministry launches phone app to help prevent spread of coronavirus (Times of Israel)
‘Hamagen’ tracks a user’s whereabouts and then compares them to known movements of those diagnosed with COVID-19 to check if paths crossed within previous 14 days
Quarantined after waving at coronavirus patient: how accurate is Israel's 'terrorist-tracking' tech? (Haaretz)
The Shin Bet measures tracking coronavirus patients are sending Israelis into isolation with little information and no way to ask, some of whom had no contact with a patient at all ■ Health Ministry says error was corrected, but people who were mistakenly quarantined claim they received no word
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UK Board calls on government to 'respect religious traditions' and allow burial for coronavirus deaths (Jewish Chronicle)
Board President Marie van der Zyl says proposed emergency legislation should be amended so councils must still respect the deceased's beliefs
Photo: Workers from the Chevra Kadisha burial society wearing masks stand around the body of Holocaust survivor Aryeh Even, 88, the first person in Israel to die from the coronavirus (Reuters)
