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2 shares The March of the Living begins its main Holocaust Memorial Day virtual event, broadcast online due to COVID-19 restrictions. The “virtual march” is led by President Reuven Rivlin, Holocaust survivors, Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion, Jewish Agency chair Isaac Herzog, KKL chair Avraham Duvdevani, and Rabbi Israel Meir Lau. Thousands of people usually take part in the march on the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp, which had been run by Nazi Germany, in Poland. This year, participants from across the globe were filmed using innovative 3D technology so they appear to be ma...

Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks during a briefing at The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs in Jerusalem February 9, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo. JNS.org – The Israeli first-responder organization United Hatzalah announced on Thursday that it was “expanding its international board and bringing on some remarkable people who have made large impacts on the Jewish community in the United States and Israel.” Among those “remarkable people” is former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, said United Hatzalah Founder and President Eli Beer. In a state...

“God forbid, I don’t want any of our volunteers [getting sick or] passing the virus on to a patient,” says United Hatzalah founder and president Eli Beer, who himself recovered from a serious case of COVID-19.

Nathan Jeffay is The Times of Israel's health and science correspondent United Hatzalah medics in Nahariya take a Holocaust survivor to the beach, after a trip to a vaccination center. (Courtesy of United Hatzalah) After finding that many housebound Holocaust survivors are not getting vaccinated, an Israeli medical organization has teamed up with a survivor restitution group to launch a service to make their appointments and transport them to clinics. “Lots of survivors haven’t left their homes since last March, or for even longer, and they need help accessing the state’s vaccination p...

By NoCamels Team January 21, 2021 5 minutes Health & ScienceTech & Innovation United Hatzalah is rolling out rapid COVID testing kits in partnership with Israeli biotech startup Nanosynex. Courtesy Israeli emergency medical services organization United Hatzalah (UH) will be rolling out COVID-19 rapid diagnostic kits in partnership with Israeli biotech startup Nanosynex, as part of a pilot initiative to ramp up mass testing efforts affordably and efficiently. The kits consist of an antibody detection test (also known as a serological test), performed on blood extracted from a finger prick, a...