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Get email notification for articles from Aaron Rabinowitz Follow May. 17, 2021 11:02 PM Funerals were held Monday evening for the two victims of the grandstand collapse at a synagogue in Givat Ze’ev, near Jerusalem on Sunday. The funerals were held outside of the synagogue where the disaster occurred. The two victims have been identified as 13-year-old Meir Gleiberman, who only recently celebrated his Bar Mitzvah and was in the 9th grade at Karlin School in the West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit, and Rabbi Mordechai Binyamin Rubinstein, a 23-year-old resident of Beitar Illit, and new fat...

However, he said, “there was also a fantastic rescue team there.” Another, anonymous, eyewitness told the outlet, “General chaos, that’s what happened.” He said that the initial cause of the incident was a slippery iron walkway, followed by a flight of stairs. “It was a recipe for disaster,” he said, “because suddenly — boom, glitch.” He added that he was in flat-soled shoes, and as a result, “I couldn’t stop, and suddenly I saw one falling on top of another, and then the screams started.” Haim Spielberg, a volunteer with the emergency service ZAKA, called the scene ...

Integrating the ultra-Orthodox into premium high-tech jobs Culturally sensitive programs train women and men in the religious sector to fill needs in companies such as Apple, Check Point, Facebook, XM Cyber. Ultra-Orthodox seminary students in an Adva software engineering training course. Photo courtesy of Start-Up Velocity “We’re looking at jobs in bigger companies where my friends wouldn’t even look.”  When Israeli ultra-Orthodox girls like Zahava finish high school, they enter a two-year seminary combining Judaic studies with career preparation. Zahava, now a 21-year-old newlywed...

Easing Lockdown Should Depend on Vaccination Rate, Israeli Epidemiologist Says Differential approach to COVID-19 restrictions could see schools reopen in some cities The Media Line — Lifting local lockdown restrictions on the basis of vaccination rates could be an effective way to keep the number of Israel’s COVID-19 cases from steep increases, an epidemiologist said. Ronit Calderon-Margalit, a professor of epidemiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Hadassah Braun School of Public Health, told The Media Line that a differential approach to restriction policies could be a solut...

Authorities in Israel, as well as the West Bank and Gaza, are grappling with the current increase in coronavirus cases, which has prompted directives to curb its spread but also an effort to mitigate the economic consequences of the crisis. Israel has entered a third nationwide lockdown, and has severely limited the entry of foreigners into the country as cases continue to spike. Israel also announced that anybody arriving from abroad will be required to immediately get a coronavirus test and quarantine at home for two weeks. Israel currently has 49,506 active cases; 3,392 people have died. ...