Los turistas extranjeros podrán volver a Israel desde el 1 de marzo

Con la ola de Ómicron en descenso el Gobierno decidió admitir a viajeros de todas las edades más allá de si están o no vacunados. Deberán presentar una prueba de PCR.

Por Abigail Klein Leichman

Viajeros llegan al Aeropuerto Internacional Ben Gurion. Foto: Flash90

Luego de casi dos años de estrictas restricciones para volar a Israel el Gobierno anunció que desde el 1 de marzo los residentes extranjeros podrán ingresar al país independientemente de si están vacunados o no contra el COVID-19.

Esto indica que los niños pequeños pueden volver a visitar Israel.

La única condición para entrar a Israel es la presentación de una prueba de PCR realizada antes del despegue y tras el aterrizaje. Solo aquellos con un resultado negativo antes de despegar podrán seguir viaje.

I Can't Go Back To Israel!

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Over 2.5 million Israelis live in poverty, among them 1.1 million kids, report finds

Charity organization Latet also says proportion of households close to poverty line, experiencing food insecurity and financial distress, rose to nearly 25% since pandemic began.

By RICKY BEN-DAVID

An unhoused man seen outside a grocery shop in the city center of Jerusalem on December 15, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Over 2.5 million Israelis currently live in poverty, among them more than 1.1 million children, and 932,000 households live in a state of economic distress, a new survey released this week revealed. Of these 932,000 households (31.6% of all households in Israel), 233,000 were added in 2021 alone, as families grappled with the worst economic effects of the ongoing pandemic.

According to the latest report by the Israeli aid organization Latet, the portion of

‘They are burying us’: Tourism sector workers fume at government offer to ‘retrain’

Tour guides and operators say they feel abandoned, after 2 years of COVID-19, by a leadership pushing them to find other jobs.

A group of tourists in Israel led by tour guide Yoav Rotem. (Courtesy)

Israeli tour guides and operators who have seen their professional lives devastated by the pandemic over the past two years were presented with a new plan by the Finance Ministry on Wednesday night: train for a different career.

The proposal came days after Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman drew condemnation for saying during a cabinet meeting Sunday that tour guides,

Familia de Bennett va de vacaciones al extranjero a pesar de variante Ómicron y de recomendación de no salir del país

Enlace Judío – La esposa del primer ministro Naftali Bennett, Gilat, y sus hijos volarán al extranjero el miércoles para unas vacaciones en el extranjero, dijo la Oficina del Primer Ministro de Israel, informó The Jerusalem Post.

Las vacaciones de la familia Bennett, que no incluyen al propio primer ministro, se producen días después de que Bennett disuadiera a los israelíes de viajar al extranjero debido a la nueva variante Ómicron de coronavirus.

Las vacaciones, que su familia pasaría originalmente en las islas Mauricio, se cancelaron después de que Israel designara al país del este de África como rojo por la variante Ómicron.

Natan Sharansky offered advice to cope with COVID lockdowns. Now, he’s recovering from the virus.

Last year, Natan Sharansky recorded a video on how to handle quarantine based on his experience as a political prisoner. (Screenshot)

(JTA) — When the world shut down last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Natan Sharansky figured his experience as a Soviet political prisoner meant he had a thing or two to teach the millions of people who were suddenly confined to their homes.

So he recorded a video providing his advice that went viral among the many Jews around the world who have long seen him as a sage figure.

Nearly a year and a half later, Sharansky, 73, announced on Facebook that he and his wife, Avital, had contracted the disease. The Israeli couple had both been vaccinated months ago, and are both recovering.

Bennett urges Arab Israelis to get vaccinated: ‘Rates are too low’

Minority lags with some 51% inoculated, compared to 66% of all Israeli citizens; though only one Arab town among 26 in country designated as ‘red’ area.

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Mohamed Agbariyah receives a coronavirus vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccination center in the northern Arab Israeli town of Umm el-Fahm, Israel, Jan. 5, 2021 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday urged Arab Israelis to get vaccinated, citing relatively lower inoculation rates in the community.

“Immunization rates in Arab society are too low. I hereby call on anyone over the age of 60 to go and get vaccinated with the third vaccine, the booster shot. It saves

Too Many Coincidences: The Likelihood That a Lab Leak in Wuhan Led to the COVID-19 Outbreak

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BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,112, August 3, 2021

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: More than a year and a half after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the way in which its causative virus first emanated remains unclear. While new viruses appearing within humans usually derive from animal viruses, a series of exceptional coincidences in Wuhan, China prior to and during the onset of the pandemic strongly support the laboratory leak theory.

In principle, when a new virus appears in humans that has a genomic similarity to a virus existing in non-laboratory animals, it is plausible to assume that it originated from those animals. This absolutely applies to coronaviruses, and it is for this

Bennett announces restrictions on Israelis who refuse a jab

One million unvaccinated people will have to produce negative test results before entering crowded public venues, PM says.

By MICHAEL DAVENTRY

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Naftali Bennett unveiled plans to impose sweeping restrictions on unvaccinated Israelis in a bid to encourage nearly one million people to take the jab.

The prime minister said Israelis who refused a vaccine were endangering public health and freedoms, and would have to pick up the cost of their choice.

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Vaccine protection ‘weaker than we’d hoped’ against Delta, PM says; inoculations help, but ‘significantly less’ than with previous strains; gov’t seeks to approve home testing kits.

By TOI STAFF

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett chairs the weekly cabinet meeting, in Jerusalem, July 11, 2021. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP)

At a situational assessment in Tel Aviv Friday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said protection afforded by COVID-19 vaccines was “weaker than we’d hoped” against the surging Delta variant.

“Anyone who hoped that vaccines on their own would solve the problem — they

El boom demográfico de Israel y su incidencia en la pandemia

Israel ocupa el noveno lugar en cantidad de infectados por millón de habitantes, pero baja a la posición 54 en cantidad de muertes. ¿Cómo se explica ese fenómeno?

El portal Worldmeter publica en tiempo real los guarismos de la pandemia en cada país, contabilizando el número de infectados y fallecimientos por COVID-19, tomando como base y referente un millón de habitantes. En este contexto, Israel irrumpe en el noveno lugar en el número de contagios, pero baja al 54 en cuanto a a fallecimientos. ¿Cómo explicar el abismo y defasaje entre el número de infectados y el número de fallecimientos?

Se han vertido al respecto distintas opiniones. En primer término, la estructura del sistema de salud Israelí, y en especial el eficiente quehacer de las mutualistas médicas israelíes, cuya bondades reseñé hace un tiempo desde esta misma columna en el marco de la inoculación de la población israelí. El hecho de que las

2020: Récord de inversiones en Israel a pesar del covid-19

Record de inversiones en Israel. IVC-Meitar The Israeli Tech Review 2020

Desde su inicio, se pensó que la pandemia del coronavirus definitivamente representaría una amenaza para las economías del mundo. En Israel, muchos afirmaron que las rondas de financiamiento en el ecosistema de alta tecnología se verían gravemente afectadas y que el ecosistema quizás nunca volvería a ser el mismo. Sin embargo, el 2020 mostró resultados sorprendentes y demostró ser un ejemplo perfecto para comprender la dinámica del ecosistema tecnológico israelí.

Se resalta el rápido cambio que se implementó en el ecosistema israelí para proporcionar soluciones a la crisis provocada por el COVID-19, no solo al dar soluciones en salud digital, sino también en áreas relacionadas con la tecnología robótica, diagnóstico, bienestar mental, ciberseguridad, logística y desarrollo de fármacos.

Judíos y asiáticos británicos unen fuerzas para el llamamiento de emergencia del Covid en India

Las comunidades judía y asiática se unen para recaudar fondos en medio de cientos de miles de casos nuevos reportados al día en toda la India.

Ventiladores que llegan a Delhi, India, desde el Reino Unido en respuesta a la crisis del coronavirus.

Las comunidades judías y asiáticas británicas se han unido en apoyo de un llamamiento de emergencia en medio de la crisis del coronavirus que se desarrolla en la India.

La Asociación Judía de la India Británica (BIJA) ha respaldado una campaña de recaudación de fondos para tratar a los cientos de miles de afectados por el virus en el subcontinente.

Ya hubo contactos para que Argentina fabrique la vacuna de Israel

La misma se llamará Brilife y se desarrolló en el Instituto Biológico del país hebreo. En mayo arribarán expertos en medicina para confirmar la futura fabricación.

Acuerdo histórico entre Argentina e Israel contra el Covid-19. Fuente: Twitter @sergiourribarri

Israel y Argentina están en tratativas para producir la vacuna contra el coronavirus desarrollada en el país. La vacuna, llamada Brilife, se basa en vectores, no causa enfermedad alguna por sí sola y desarrolla defensas inmunológicas.

El Hospital Universitario Hadassah, líder en ensayos clínicos de Fase 2 y en el resto del desarrollo, también puso su grano de arena para que este trato se lleve a

Israel no registra muertos por COVID-19, por primera vez en diez meses

El presidente Reuvén Rivlin recibe la vacuna contra el Coronavirus -Foto archivo: Mark Nyman GPO vía Twitter

El Ministerio de Salud anunció hoy, viernes, que en la jornada de ayer no se registraron fallecidos por Coronavirus. Por lo tanto, la cifra de víctimas fatales en el país desde el comienzo de la pandemia permanece en 6.343.

La última vez que no se registraron fallecidos por coronavirus fue el 29 de junio de 2020, cuando los niveles de morbilidad fueron reducidos tras la primera ola de la pandemia.

Online Anti-Semitism Skyrocketed in 2020 Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, New Tel Aviv University Report Finds

An example of an COVID-19 pandemic-related anti-Semitic cartoon published online in 2020.

While the number of worldwide incidents of violent attacks targeting Jews fell in 2020 amid COVID-19 pandemic-related social-distancing behavior, online anti-Semitism skyrocketed, according to a new annual anti-Semitism report put out this week by Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry in cooperation with the European Jewish Congress (EJC).

The report was based on thousands of testimonies collected from across the globe.

The study found that the number of physical assaults on Jews dropped to 371 in 2020 from 456 the previous year.

Abbas receives first vaccine dose as Palestinian inoculation drive set to begin

Vaccination campaign for Palestinian public begins Sunday with 61,440 shots donated through international COVAX program.

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas receives his first shot of COVID-19 vaccine, March 20, 2021. (Screenshot/WAFA)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas received at least dose of a coronavirus vaccine, the official PA WAFA news agency confirmed on Saturday.

It is not clear what vaccine Abbas received, nor when he received it. Previous statements by the PA Health Ministry indicated that many senior Palestinian

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Israel authorizes plan to vaccinate over 120,000 Palestinian workers

Shots will be administered by Israeli healthcare workers at border crossings and industrial zones in West Bank, COGAT says; plan comes as coronavirus in West Bank hits new highs.

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Palestinian workers enter Israel through the Mitar checkpoint in the West Bank city of Hebron, on May 5, 2020. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

The Israeli government on Sunday approved a plan to vaccinate over 120,000 Palestinians who are legally employed in Israeli communities, Israel’s military liaison to the Palestinians said in a statement.

The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, which administers Palestinian civilian affairs, announced that it would roll out an immunization

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Amid concerns of low vaccination rates in city’s eastern sector, Moshe Lion tells local leaders that residents who aren’t inoculated may be prevented from entering some places.

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Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion seen at the opening of a drive-through site to collect samples for coronavirus testing, at the entrance to the East Jerusalem village of Jabel Mukaber August 18, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion warned local Arab officials in the city that unvaccinated residents may not be permitted to go to mosque, schools or hotels, in audio recordings released on Monday.