Israeli Sabras’ most annoying vice may also be their nation’s saving grace Israel’s “coronavirus cabinet” recently voted to order hospitals here to prepare to serve 2,000 additional coronavirus patients who may soon need ventilators. The … [Read more]
Keeping the rules
“We will keep the rules and, with God’s help, they’ll keep us.” “I must show you…a steep increase [in COVID‑19 diagnoses] in recent days,” Netanyahu told the nation in a speech. “…It is too early to say if it is a general change in the trend … [Read more]
Something new under the sun?
Just before dawn some mornings during the days leading up to Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, the highest hill in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ir Ganim has been visited by handfuls of Orthodox Jews who faced the Old City and prayed. Though the … [Read more]
Change, shortages and substitutions
Despite our new restrictions, Israelis are permitted to eat, drink, walk their dogs and take (prescription) drugs, so I walked to our local pharmacy a few days ago, a small dispensary lying within a medium-sized clinic housing a lab, nursing and … [Read more]
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