Published: 12 May 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Deri calls for ultra-Orthodox ‘soul-searching’ amid high virus infection rate (Times of Israel)
Interior minister and Shas party chief says 70% of Israel’s coronavirus cases are Haredim, with outbreak concentrated in community’s major cities and smaller neighbourhoods
Two ultra-Orthodox bastions account for 37% of Israel’s virus deaths (Times of Israel)
Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, focal points of the community, were disproportionately hit by COVID-19, but the extent of that impact was not known until now
Religion can no longer claim moral superiority, and six other lessons from the coronavirus crisis (Haaretz)
EVA ILLOUZ: The global coronavirus crisis is unprecedented in many ways – with the power of states unchecked, freedoms crushed and values distorted – but it's already possible to draw a few lessons from it
Israel appointed 23 experts to lead its coronavirus exit strategy – none are women (Haaretz)
EETTA PRINCE-GIBSON: Although women are the ones bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic economically speaking, they have largely been excluded from planning Israel's return to normality
Photo: Haredi men cross a police roadblock in an ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood of Jerusalem, April 19 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
