Ventilators now last resort * Israel vaccine human trials start Sun * Grades 1-4 to return * Hadassah to Dubai? * Anger in Brooklyn * Blogs: Learning quarantine from Noah

[Times of Israel]( [Battling COVID: Weekly Update]( Tuesday, October 27, 2020 [With low survival rate, doctors see ventilators as gut-wrenching last resort]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [As deaths pile up, physicians say they are trying everything, but hooking up patients to breathing machines comes with a harsh dose of reality that their chances are slim]( [Analysis / A week into lockdown exit, plunging infection rates tempered by mounting worries]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [State comptroller cites ‘significant shortcomings’ in Israel’s pandemic response]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Israel begins mass-producing coronavirus vaccines ahead of human trials]( By [TOI staff and Judah Ari Gross]( [Aiming for regulatory approval by July, Institute for Biological Research to develop 15 million doses for Israelis, Palestinians and other possible buyers]( [Human trials for Israeli coronavirus vaccine to begin November 1]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Israeli company announces identification of COVID-19 indicators in breath test Â]( By [TOI staff]( Top Ops [Shuki Friedman]( [Ultra-Orthodox non-compliance rests on fear]( [The rabbis are assigning higher priority to ’customer retention’ than to the clear halakhic imperative to preserve health and life]( [Peta Jones Pellach]( [Learning from Noah’s quarantine]( [Did it take the forced lockdown of the flood for humans to understand what their place in creation should be? (Noah)]( [Alan M. Dershowitz]( [Choose life! That’s the Jewish way, and it hasn’t changed]( [I grew up in Orthodox Borough Park and I’m sad that what I see there today doesn’t represent the life-affirming sources of Jewish law that have served Jews for millennia of crises]( [Rachel Sharansky Danziger]( [The day we leave these arks]( [Will we rise to the challenge, and shape the post-coronavirus world to be a better place? Or will we try, like Noah, to leave this time in the past, and forget it all?]( [Hadassah in negotiations to open hospital in Dubai]( By [TOI staff]( [Head of Jerusalem medical center says proposal could turn Hadassah into a ‘medical power in the UAE,’ denies using talks to leverage funds from Finance Ministry]( [Israel expected to receive Moderna’s COVID vaccine by mid-2021]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( ToI Community Exclusive [Israel Unlocked: Powerful online journeys that support Israeli tourism]( [Join the ToI Community to access our exclusive virtual tours series – and support Israeli tourism at this difficult time]( [Cabinet decides grades 1-4 to go back to school Sunday, salons to reopen]( By [TOI staff]( [Students will be divided into separate pods; after-school programs also to resume; businesses that receive customers on one-by-one basis allowed to reopen]( [Percentage of positive COVID tests the lowest since June; serious cases drop]( By [TOI staff]( [Plan for 1st-2nd graders to attend school part-time lashed as ‘ludicrous’]( By [TOI staff]( COVID FURY [Jacob Magid]( [At Brooklyn Trump rally, Orthodox anger at mayor and governor]( [Attendees stick to health guidelines but fume at restrictions]( [US sees fresh virus spike in Midwest, at worst possible time for Trump]( By [Thomas Beaumont]( [Biden accuses Trump of giving up in coronavirus fight]( By [Brian Knowlton]( [NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio: I regret how I handled that Orthodox funeral in April]( By [Shira Hanau]( [Arab Israelis see new virus surge as weddings ‘return with a vengeance’]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [‘Pandemic fatigue,’ low testing, and poor enforcement on gatherings blamed for coronavirus resurgence, which comes after communities successfully reined in infections]( [Golan Druze town of Majdal Shams to be cordoned off as infections mount]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( inside story [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Screen test: Coronavirus is causing ‘academic Darwinism’ as campuses stay closed]( [Students struggle financially and socially, with the challenges bigger for those who are already disadvantaged; ‘if they fall, they will bring down all of us,’ warns one dean]( [Up to 60,000 Israeli businesses may close in 2021 amid COVID-19 fallout: report]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Coronavirus pandemic strips 154 Israelis of millionaire status]( By [Shoshanna Solomom]( [CRM]( [Mexico City’s Deportivo center united its Jews; now the pandemic isolates them]( By [Alan Grabinsky]( More Headlines [IDF’s virus squad, now fully operational, readies for feared winter outbreaks]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Israel’s next coronavirus czar named as former IDF medical chief Nachman Ash]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli women’s soccer team sees COVID outbreak after Euro 2021 qualifier]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli company’s bid for universal flu vaccine fails in clinical trails]( By [TOI staff]( [Anti-Netanyahu demonstrators rally throughout the country for 18th week]( By [TOI staff]( [Ultra-Orthodox wedding held in Arab town in effort to avoid detection]( By [TOI staff]( [Coronavirus ward closed after Legionnaires’ bacteria found in water]( By [TOI staff]( [1 in 5 students in yeshiva ‘capsule’ program contracted COVID-19]( By [TOI staff]( [Groom nearly faints as police enforcing health rules clash with wedding party]( By [TOI staff]( [Experts pan ‘fundamentally flawed’ ministry report that kids are superspreaders]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Netanyahu’s secretary diagnosed with coronavirus]( By [TOI staff]( [Live updates (closed) / 1 in 5 students in yeshiva ‘capsule’ program contracted COVID-19 — TV]( By [TOI staff]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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