Yom Shshee, Friday
9 Shevat, 5781
January 22, 2020
Corona Quote of the Day
“We will have to vaccinate more people than we thought in order to achieve herd immunity; probably between 70%-90% of the population.”
Prof. Gili Regev, director of the Infection Prevention and Control Unit at Sheba Hospital
The News on the Israeli Street
The daily Corona update . . .
Please note that these numbers encompass from 8 pm yesterday until 4 pm today (Friday):
589,028 Israelis have been confirmed with the virus since the pandemic began last March.
There are 10,012 newly confirmed cases.
1,182 are in critical condition—an increase of 22
316 of the most critically ill are on ventilators—a decrease of 9
4,266 have died–an increase of 56
There are currently 79,942 active Corona cases in Israel.
2.4 million Israelis have been vaccinated.
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TODAY’S BLOG
10 Friday Snippets
1. Royal Air Morocco will begin operating 3 direct flights from Rabat to Tel Aviv each week; the 5 hour flights will be on the airline’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
2. The fallout from the clash two nights ago between police who were attempting to enforce Corona restrictions and ultra orthodox students Bnei Brak continues to reverberate with both sides accusing the other of unjustified violence.
3. IDF troops shot down a remote controlled Hezbollah drone on the Lebanese border this morning.
4. Saudi Arabia reaffirmed today that it will never sign a peace agreement with Israel unless there is a Palestinian state with eastern Jerusalem as its capital.
5. The oldest tool ever found in the world for grinding foodstuffs has been discovered in a cave in the Carmel region of northern Israel; the tool has been dated to 350,000 years ago–more than double the age of the oldest previously discovered such tool.
6. American Airlines will resume flights from New York to Israel on May 6.
7. The sixth flight of Ethiopian immigrants landed at Ben Gurion yesterday totaling 162 new citizens to the country.
8. A new record: 225,000 Israelis were vaccinated yesterday.
9. Mahmoud Abbas announced the first Palestinian elections in Areas A and B of Judea and Samaria, Gaza, and east Jerusalem since 2006; the parliamentary elections will be on May 22, and the presidential election will take place on July 31–whether either will happen is anyone’s guess.
10. Israeli aircraft attacked Iranian positions in the Tartus area of Syria last night.
Shabbat Shalom to all!
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.