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Jan. ’21 By The New York Times·Sources: Israeli Ministry of Health (cases); Israel Democracy Institute and Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (population) Rivka Wertheimer, a 74-year-old Haredi homemaker, was among the most recent wave of infected people. Late one recent night, she was close to death. Two ambulances were parked outside her cramped apartment in north Jerusalem, ready to rush her to the hospital. Two paramedics were inside, ready to lift her onto a gurney. A nurse at her bedside said she had just hours to live — unless she left now. But the Wertheimers were not sur...

Don't show me this message again✕ On holiday: Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky reads the book of Esther in a rare visit to a local synagogue for the feast of Purim two years ago (AFP via Getty) C haim Kanievsky can’t use a phone, rarely leaves his house, has never made a cup of tea  successfully and doesn’t know the name of Israel’s prime minister, according to those who know the rabbi who studies the Torah for 17 hours a day, give or take. Yet despite his seeming detachment from worldly life, Kanievsky has become one of the most consequential and controversial people in Israel.