COVID-19: TESTING: Israel

Paramedics from Magen David Adom, serving as the Israeli Red Cross organization and leading EMS, execute rapid Antigen Covid-19 testing on the unvaccinated over three years old. A negative result awards a 24 hour Green Pass and access to indoor public locations and events in line with government’s newly imposed restrictions. A long term Green Pass is awarded only to those fully vaccinated or recovered from the Coronavirus. Israel battles a fourth wave of COVID-19 dominantly comprised of the Delta Variant.

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.