ToI’s weekly COVID update: Israel to start vaccinating next week * Green Passports will open doors * NY’s Israeli restaurants: We’ll survive * B logs: Education reimagined

[Times of Israel]( [Battling COVID: Weekly Update]( Tuesday, December 15, 2020 [Start of Israel’s vaccine drive moved up to December 23, HMOs told]( By [TOI staff]( [Medical personnel to begin receiving inoculations on Sunday; TV says Israel currently has 313,000 doses from Pfizer, with 3.8 million expected by end of the month]( [Health Ministry fails to sway ultra-Orthodox rabbis to back vaccination drive]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [Task force says effect of vaccine on pandemic won’t be felt until end of winter]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli restaurateurs in New York confident they will survive a bleak winter]( By [Luke Tress]( [93% of Israeli restaurant owners in city say their establishments will outlast pandemic, after indoor dining banned again and officials weigh new shutdown]( [Vaccinated Israelis will get ‘green passports’ waiving lockdown constraints]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [Document showing holder has been inoculated against coronavirus will enable skipping quarantine, access to cultural events and restaurants; may become necessary for travel abroad]( [Israel said considering restrictions on those who refuse COVID vaccine]( By [TOI staff]( [Government to crack down on violations of distancing rules at airport]( By [TOI staff]( [‘Long COVID’ may be caused by body attacking itself, not the virus – study]( By [TOI staff]( [In study not yet peer-reviewed, Yale researchers find that coronavirus patients had high levels of autoantibodies that targeted organs and tissue instead of latching onto virus]( from the blogs [Penny Cagan]( [A great miracle happened in Kalamazoo]( [Developing a vaccine in under a year that would usually take years to engineer is an astonishment, and its message is: Respect the science]( [Israel passes grim milestone of 3,000 coronavirus deaths since start of pandemic]( By [TOI staff]( [Number of quarantined medical workers doubles in a week, reaches highest level in 2 months; taskforce says restrictions will likely be reimposed by end of month]( [Netanyahu enters quarantine for 3rd time; set to be 1st to vaccinate Sat. night]( By [TOI staff]( [Condition of Likud MK Bitan, hospitalized with COVID-19, deteriorates to serious]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel records more than 2,200 daily cases as it barrels toward new restrictions]( By [TOI staff]( [Virus czar says government ‘trying to prevent a full lockdown,’ after Monday sees highest number of new confirmed carriers in 2 months]( [After FDA approval, virus czar urges all Israelis to get COVID vaccine]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli vaccine clears first stage as no major side effects reported]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Palestinians expect first vaccines only between January and March]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [PA health minister says Pfizer’s shot is off the table for Palestinians due to cumbersome storage requirements, will mostly rely on UN to supply immunizations]( [Israel reduces quarantine to 10 days, with 2 virus tests]( By [TOI staff]( Analysis [Eli Hurvitz]( [In this crisis, a golden chance to reimagine education]( [The success of a handful of teachers and students during the pandemic points the way forward to schooling that aligns with tomorrow’s needs]( [Cheaper LEDs can disinfect against COVID-19, Israeli scientists find]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Tel Aviv University team behind discovery is working on self-cleaning surfaces, including laptop keyboard that kill germs with ultraviolet light every time lid is closed]( [Nurse at New York Jewish hospital receives first COVID vaccine in US]( By [AFP]( [‘I hope this marks the beginning of the end of the very painful time in our history,’ Sandra Lindsay says after being vaccinated]( [London set for tighter virus curbs as new variant emerges in England]( By [Anna MALPAS]( from the blogs [Jennifer Raskas]( [From chaos to light]( [Usually, we light Hanukkah candles as long as people are out and about, but this year, with people isolated at home, we needed a new way to share our light with others]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2020 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved