Published: 14 April 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Coronavirus divides Jerusalem (Jerusalem Post)
Late Saturday night, a ministerial committee decided to lock down – effective noon Sunday – 17 of the Jerusalem neighbourhoods worst hit by the virus. And it just so happened that 12 of those 17 are Haredi and five of them have a mixed Haredi-general population
Israel got the macro decisions right on COVID-19, but it’s in danger of slipping (Times of Israel)
DAVID HOROVITZ: The failures to quarantine new arrivals from abroad, and to evacuate virus carriers from ultra-Orthodox neighbourhoods, underline concerns that we’re far from out of the woods
Netanyahu’s ministers of mayhem are ruining Israel’s comeback from coronavirus (Haaretz)
Cabinet members should be doing what’s best for their constituents – but the four horsemen of Israel’s potential coronavirus apocalypse could be squandering all the country’s early advantage in fighting the pandemic
Former Sephardic chief rabbi Bakshi-Doron succumbs to coronavirus, aged 79 (Times of Israel)
Rabbi dies 5 days after admitted to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek and testing positive for COVID-19; Deri mourns loss of ‘giant of a scholar, a guide to many of the people of Israel’
Mandatory stay at quarantine hotels finally imposed on all arrivals from abroad (Times of Israel)
Regulations approved by cabinet after passengers have for days been allowed to enter Israel unchecked, take taxis home, despite PM’s repeated instructions
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Zionist youth groups facing financial crisis due to coronavirus pandemic (Jerusalem Post)
Ofir Libstein, the Chairman of Habonim Dror Olami, warned that global Zionist movements may not be able to survive the economic impact of the pandemic.
Photo: Lockdown on some Jerusalem neighbourhoods begins in effort to stop coronavirus spread, April 12 (Marc Israel Sellem)
