Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio The rooms at St. Joseph Hospital are larger and offer more privacy. Each room has a bathroom and holds only one or two patients. Natural light completes the scene. With many of Israel’s coronavirus wards underground, the more normal atmosphere can’t be overrated. St. Joseph, in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the center of the city, has converted 40 of its 100 beds into two coronavirus wards. When these began to fill up, the hospital postponed certain nonurgent procedures. After an encouraging lull last week, the two wards were fu...