COVID-19: 3rd Vaccine for Seniors: Israel

Paramedics from Magen David Adom, serving as the Israeli Red Cross organization and leading EMS, deliver a 3rd BioNTech Pfizer booster vaccine to seniors at the Mishan Gonen Assisted Living Residence for the elderly. PM Bennett announced his goal of vaccinating all Israeli seniors, 60 and above, with a 3rd vaccine by the end of August 2021, in spite of the fact that a booster shot has not yet been approved by the US FDA.

COVID-19: 3rd Vaccine for Seniors: Israel

Paramedics from Magen David Adom, serving as the Israeli Red Cross organization and leading EMS, deliver a 3rd BioNTech Pfizer booster vaccine to seniors at the Mishan Gonen Assisted Living Residence for the elderly. PM Bennett announced his goal of vaccinating all Israeli seniors, 60 and above, with a 3rd vaccine by the end of August 2021, in spite of the fact that a booster shot has not yet been approved by the US FDA.

Baby Orangutan at Israel’s Safari

For the first time in eleven years a female baby Sumatran Orangutan was born July 10th, 2021 at the Safari Zoological Center to mother Tana, 12, and father Mercy, 11. All apes were luckily unhurt when a hamas rocket hit close, heavily damaging the Orangutan enclosure, during Operation Guardian of the Walls in May 2021. The Sumatran Orangutan has been labeled ‘critically endangered’ by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

COVID-19: Possible New Outbreak in Israel

A father blesses his sons beneath prayer shawls as Jewish men conduct their morning prayers in an underground parking lot in an act of self imposed social distancing, not mandatory at the moment. 138 new cases of COVID-19 were detected yesterday, over fifty percent among youth under the age of 15, the majority of type Delta Variant. PM Bennett announced the government is treating the increase in coronavirus cases as a new outbreak and taking measures to counter the disease. Face masks are once again mandatory indoors as of 12 noon today.

Israel: Unrecognized Bedouin Villages

Young boys listen to their elders in the visitors’ tent in the Bedouin town of Bir Hadaj. The decades long political battle for the unrecognized Bedouin villages and development of those already legalized in the Israeli Negev climaxes as the new Bennett - Lapid unity government depends on supporting votes from the four Knesset seats belonging to the Raam, United Arab List.

Israel: Unrecognized Bedouin Villages

Sheep graze overlooking the Bedouin local council of Laqiya, a government planned township founded in 1985 in the Negev desert. The decades long political battle for the unrecognized Bedouin villages and development of those already legalized in the Israeli Negev climaxes as the new Bennett - Lapid unity government depends on supporting votes from the four Knesset seats belonging to the Raam, United Arab List.

International Day of Yoga - Jerusalem

Practitioners take part in a sunset Ashtanga Yoga session at the Tower of David Museum on International Day of Yoga.

Jerusalem Slut Walk 2021

A few hundred participants march through downtown Jerusalem in the annual 'Slut Walk' protesting harassment, molestation and rape of women by men who claim "she was asking for it" due to provocative clothing, or lack thereof, on the side of the victim. This year’s theme focuses on government neglect of women’s rights.

Dance of Flags 2021 in Jerusalem, Israel

Thousands identifying with the nationaloist religious Zionist streams march in the annual Dance of Flags March from downtown Jerusalem to the Damascus Gate, Jaffa Gate and to the Western Wall. Participants celebrate the anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War in a demonstration of Jewish pride. Hamas Gaza threatened with rockets and the Palestinian Authority called for a day of rage in the West Bank in protest of what they consider a provocation in East Jerusalem.

Guardian of the Walls Military Operation - Israel

Jewish youth cleanup and salvage religious articles in a torched synagogue as debris and torched vehicles litter the streets of the mixed Jewish Arab city of Lod following a night of Arab rioting against Jews throughout the country in a show of support for Hamas amid Israel’s Guardian of the Walls military operation in Gaza. The military conflict, now in it’s 3rd day, began following a salvo of rockets fired by Gaza’s Hamas terror group towards Jerusalem. Israeli government has declared a state of special emergency in Lod bestowing extended authority to the police.

Guardian of the Walls Military Operation - Israel

Debris and torched vehicles litter the streets of the mixed Jewish Arab city of Lod following a night of Arab rioting against Jews throughout the country in a show of support for Hamas amid Israel’s Guardian of the Walls military operation in Gaza. The military conflict, now in it’s 3rd day, began following a salvo of rockets fired by Gaza’s Hamas terror group towards Jerusalem. Israeli government has declared a state of special emergency in Lod bestowing extended authority to the police.

Guardian of the Walls Military Operation - Israel

Jewish youth cleanup and salvage religious articles in a torched synagogue as debris and torched vehicles litter the streets of the mixed Jewish Arab city of Lod following a night of Arab rioting against Jews throughout the country in a show of support for Hamas amid Israel’s Guardian of the Walls military operation in Gaza. The military conflict, now in it’s 3rd day, began following a salvo of rockets fired by Gaza’s Hamas terror group towards Jerusalem. Israeli government has declared a state of special emergency in Lod bestowing extended authority to the police.

Israel: Memorial Day 2021

Families, friends and comrades in arms pay respects and mourn the fallen at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery on Memorial Day, Yom Hazikaron, for Israel’s fallen servicemen and victims of terror attacks, commemorating 23,928 fallen.

Memorial Day 2021 Preparations in Jerusalem

IDF soldiers place small Israeli flags with black ribbons on each of the graves and salute the fallen at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery ahead of Memorial Day, Yom Hazikaron, for Israel’s fallen servicemen and victims of terror attacks. Memorial day will be marked 14th April, 2021.

Israel Parliamentary Elections 2021 Preparations

The Central Elections Committee prepares for the 23rd March, 2021, national elections for the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament. 15,000 polling stations will be operated nationwide, 30% more than in 2020, including in every assisted living for the elderly facility, inside hospital Coronavirus wards and quarantined drive through voting stations for those tested positive for COVID-19.

Follow The Lights in Jerusalem

The Monastery of the Cross is illuminated as Follow The Lights art exhibition opens in Jerusalem illuminating the city's iconic landmarks with light and video art. Installations invite visitors to tour the city adhering to all public health measures from the safety and convenience of their own cars. The exhibition will run until 3rd March, 2021.

COVID-19: ECONOMY: Israel

Putting faith in the efficiency of COVID-19 vaccines and under pressure ahead of the 23rd March, 2021, elections, Israeli government eases Coronavirus restrictions opening commerce, shopping malls, cultural events, hotels and gyms with yet another set of confusing limitations and regulations. Some 3 million Israelis have been vaccinated with a second dose of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine as morbidity rates continue to decline with a positivity rate of 6.4% and an R of 0.79.

Netanyahu Corruption Trial in Jerusalem

Crime Minister anti Netanyahu activists lay a red carpet and conduct a mock cleanup operation to ‘clean up corruption’ and demand PM’s resignation at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem. Netanyahu’s trial begins later today with a hearing he is required to attend at the Jerusalem District Court focusing on his response to the criminal indictment against him. Israel’s first serving prime minister to go on criminal trial faces charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust ahead of 23rd March, 2021 elections.

COVID-19: DAILY LIFE: Jerusalem

A Jewish religious man walks past a banner depicting Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, believed by some to be the messiah, at Jerusalem’s Shuk Mahane Yehuda Market.

COVID-19: TRAVEL: Israel

Last minute outgoing travelers undergo COVID-19 tests at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport just hours ahead of a near total air travel ban taking effect at midnight 25th January, 2021, proposed and approved by the government cabinet less than 24 hours ago. Exceptions will include only circumstances such as medical treatment, judicial proceedings or funerals of close family relatives but even in such cases no commercial flights will be available. Emergency Coronavirus regulations will be in effect at least until 31st January, 2021.

COVID-19: VACCINE: Jerusalem

Nurses administer COVID-19 vaccines at the Pais Arena Sports Complex in Jerusalem, converted into a Coronavirus vaccination center. Criteria is now either health workers, education workers, or the general public 50 years of age and above. The number of Israeli citizens who have received at least one dose of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine has exceeded 2M as a mass vaccination campaign continues, and so does COVID-19 infection in the general public.

COVID-19: DAILY LIFE: Jerusalem

Shoppers at Jerusalem’s Shuk Mahane Yehuda Market during a 3rd nationwide COVID-19 lockdown which began at midnight 7th January, 2021. Israel nears 2 million vaccinated at least one dose, representing over 22 percent of the population, simultaneously with breaking daily records in COVID-19 infections, now topping 9,000.

COVID-19: LOCKDOWN: Roadblocks in Jerusalem

Policemen deploy a checkpoint monitoring drivers and traffic as they enforce a 3rd nationwide COVID-19 lockdown which began at midnight 7th January, 2021.

COVID-19: PROTESTS: Jerusalem

A man wearing a face mask depicting Health Minister Edelstein pretends to vaccinate another with a huge syringe labeled ‘danger’. Demonstrators outside the parliament building protest Netanyahu’s government, breach of trust and claims of fraud and politicization in Coronavirus management, lockdowns, violation of liberties and human rights in proposed ‘Green Passport’ for the cured or vaccinated, nationwide financial crisis, unemployment, additional budgets for the handicapped, restaurateurs and small businesses and an assortment of other alleged ailments and demands.

Christmas 2020

Santa Claus, or 'Baba Noel' as he is called in Arabic, rides a camel substitute for reindeer near Jerusalem's Old City Jaffa Gate. The Jerusalem Municipality and the Jewish National Fund distributed specially grown Arizona Cypress Christmas trees to the Christian population at the Jaffa Gate.

Christmas 2020

Santa Claus, or 'Baba Noel' as he is called in Arabic, rides a camel substitute for reindeer near Jerusalem's Old City Jaffa Gate. The Jerusalem Municipality and the Jewish National Fund distributed specially grown Arizona Cypress Christmas trees to the Christian population at the Jaffa Gate.

COVID-19: DAILY LIFE: Israel Museum in Jerusalem

Jerusalem, Israel. 19th December, 2020. Visitors experience art and culture at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Closed due to COVID-19 restrictions for an extended period of time, a $4Million donation has saved museum employees from unemployment and wage cuts. Now open only since the end of November, the museum faces the inevitability of renewed restrictions on public life and reclosure. Israel struggles with a surge of new Coronavirus cases as preparations underway to begin Pfizer vaccination tomorrow, 20th December, 2020. Credit: Nir Alon/Alamy Live News.

COVID-19: RECOVERY: Partial Hotel Reopening in Israel

Dead Sea hotels are set to reopen as approved by Israeli Parliament’s ‘Tourist Islands Law’ declaring the Dead Sea and the city of Eilat as green zones requiring arrivals to present negative COVID-19 tests.