Almost 10,000 students, teachers quarantined as 217 infected in Israeli schools - 31 institutions closed down over past week
Health Ministry announces country’s first 2 deaths in days, again confirms more than 100 new cases in last 24 hours, as renewed outbreak persists
Many additional school students were told Tuesday to go into
quarantine for 14 days — adding to a large number previously instructed
to do so — including almost 2,000 pupils at a Beersheba high school
where a girl was diagnosed with the coronavirus, as the Health Ministry
announced two more deaths from the illness.
All 1,930 students at the Makif Vav school will stay in isolation until the Health Ministry concludes an epidemiological investigation and issues further instructions.
Additionally, an unspecified number of students at the Nave BaMidbar elementary school in the city have been asked to enter quarantine after a teacher contracted COVID-19.
Another carrier was diagnosed at Makif Gutvirt Klali High School in Sderot, sending almost 1,000 students and staff into isolation.
In Maale Adumim, a settlement near Jerusalem, a teacher at AMIT Wasserman high school for girls was confirmed to have the virus, prompting the municipality to order the school closed and send all pupils and staff to quarantine and to undergo a coronavirus test.
In the HaKfar HaYarok youth village near Tel Aviv, all the 11th-graders stayed home from school Tuesday after a student displayed symptoms. His test results are not yet available.
The renewed outbreak, which began last week, is focused on education institutions, particularly the Gymnasia Rehavia high school in Jerusalem, where 159 students and staff members were found to be infected.
The Education Ministry said Tuesday afternoon that 9,935 student and education staff members were in quarantine and that a total of 31 institutions had temporarily closed down over the past week.
It said that a total of 217 people had been confirmed to be infected in schools and kindergartens.
The Health Ministry on Tuesday reported two new coronavirus deaths, after several days with no fatalities, bringing the toll to 287.
Meanwhile, the number of cases continued its upward trend, with 50 new cases identified since Monday evening and 113 in the previous 24 hours.
The tally stood at 17,219, of whom 14,950 have recovered. The number of active cases, which dipped below 2,000 last week, continued to grow and stood at 2,017.
Of them, 31 were in serious condition, with 30 on a ventilator. Forty were in moderate condition, and the rest were displaying mild or no symptoms.
After several weeks of no more than 50 daily infections, Friday saw a significant jump of 115 new coronavirus infections over 24 hours, the first time that the 100 mark was breached since May 2.
Saturday saw another jump, in what health officials attributed to public complacency and failure to heed social distancing rules.
A growing number of parents have been avoiding sending their kids to school as a result of the wave of infections. Some schools have independently implemented a scrapped system of keeping students in separate, smaller groups that stay away from each other to limit any potential wave of infections, Hebrew media reports said.
Education Minister Yoav Gallant said Monday that any institution where a COVID-19 case is confirmed will be closed immediately, though partial openings will be considered if there are separate buildings in the same institution.
Ran Erez, chairman of the Secondary School Teachers Association, told 103FM Radio he has demanded that the government move to halt physical studies at school and resume online courses.
Outgoing Health Ministry Director-General Moshe Bar Siman-Tov said Sunday a sharp rise in virus cases may represent a broader trend and not be connected specifically to schools.
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein on Sunday announced plans to expand virus testing to those not showing symptoms and sternly warned Israelis against relaxing social distancing and hygiene habits.
Medical services have thus far largely limited testing to those displaying symptoms of the virus and have resisted calls to conduct mass testing to detect suspected asymptomatic carriers.
As he unveiled the looser criteria for testing, Edelstein stressed that even those who test negative must remain in 14-day quarantine if exposed to a virus patient or displaying symptoms of COVID-19.
On Monday, Channel 12 said Edelstein had barred all the senior officials in the Health Ministry from giving media interviews, since some of them oppose Edelstein’s move to allow testing of asymptomatic people. He wanted to prevent contradictory statements being made by different ministry officials, the report said.
Israel has taken steps in recent weeks to roll back its virus restrictions, reopening schools, synagogues, malls, restaurants and other spaces. While social distancing and hygiene guidelines remain in place, many have taken a more relaxed attitude as the virus appeared to wane, including regarding instructions to wear masks in most settings outside the home.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-more-students-quarantined-as-nationwide-school-infections-continue/
UPDATED June 4
All 1,930 students at the Makif Vav school will stay in isolation until the Health Ministry concludes an epidemiological investigation and issues further instructions.
Additionally, an unspecified number of students at the Nave BaMidbar elementary school in the city have been asked to enter quarantine after a teacher contracted COVID-19.
Another carrier was diagnosed at Makif Gutvirt Klali High School in Sderot, sending almost 1,000 students and staff into isolation.
In Maale Adumim, a settlement near Jerusalem, a teacher at AMIT Wasserman high school for girls was confirmed to have the virus, prompting the municipality to order the school closed and send all pupils and staff to quarantine and to undergo a coronavirus test.
In the HaKfar HaYarok youth village near Tel Aviv, all the 11th-graders stayed home from school Tuesday after a student displayed symptoms. His test results are not yet available.
The renewed outbreak, which began last week, is focused on education institutions, particularly the Gymnasia Rehavia high school in Jerusalem, where 159 students and staff members were found to be infected.
The Education Ministry said Tuesday afternoon that 9,935 student and education staff members were in quarantine and that a total of 31 institutions had temporarily closed down over the past week.
It said that a total of 217 people had been confirmed to be infected in schools and kindergartens.
The Health Ministry on Tuesday reported two new coronavirus deaths, after several days with no fatalities, bringing the toll to 287.
Meanwhile, the number of cases continued its upward trend, with 50 new cases identified since Monday evening and 113 in the previous 24 hours.
The tally stood at 17,219, of whom 14,950 have recovered. The number of active cases, which dipped below 2,000 last week, continued to grow and stood at 2,017.
Of them, 31 were in serious condition, with 30 on a ventilator. Forty were in moderate condition, and the rest were displaying mild or no symptoms.
After several weeks of no more than 50 daily infections, Friday saw a significant jump of 115 new coronavirus infections over 24 hours, the first time that the 100 mark was breached since May 2.
Saturday saw another jump, in what health officials attributed to public complacency and failure to heed social distancing rules.
A growing number of parents have been avoiding sending their kids to school as a result of the wave of infections. Some schools have independently implemented a scrapped system of keeping students in separate, smaller groups that stay away from each other to limit any potential wave of infections, Hebrew media reports said.
Education Minister Yoav Gallant said Monday that any institution where a COVID-19 case is confirmed will be closed immediately, though partial openings will be considered if there are separate buildings in the same institution.
Ran Erez, chairman of the Secondary School Teachers Association, told 103FM Radio he has demanded that the government move to halt physical studies at school and resume online courses.
Outgoing Health Ministry Director-General Moshe Bar Siman-Tov said Sunday a sharp rise in virus cases may represent a broader trend and not be connected specifically to schools.
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein on Sunday announced plans to expand virus testing to those not showing symptoms and sternly warned Israelis against relaxing social distancing and hygiene habits.
Medical services have thus far largely limited testing to those displaying symptoms of the virus and have resisted calls to conduct mass testing to detect suspected asymptomatic carriers.
As he unveiled the looser criteria for testing, Edelstein stressed that even those who test negative must remain in 14-day quarantine if exposed to a virus patient or displaying symptoms of COVID-19.
On Monday, Channel 12 said Edelstein had barred all the senior officials in the Health Ministry from giving media interviews, since some of them oppose Edelstein’s move to allow testing of asymptomatic people. He wanted to prevent contradictory statements being made by different ministry officials, the report said.
Israel has taken steps in recent weeks to roll back its virus restrictions, reopening schools, synagogues, malls, restaurants and other spaces. While social distancing and hygiene guidelines remain in place, many have taken a more relaxed attitude as the virus appeared to wane, including regarding instructions to wear masks in most settings outside the home.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-more-students-quarantined-as-nationwide-school-infections-continue/
UPDATED June 4
Erel Avineri, professor of Transportation Research at Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering, believes the true number of contagions due to public transportation is higher than reported by health officials.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.ynetnews.com/article/HyZcBIZnI
A rise in contagion of COVID-19 in Israel over the past two weeks has been attributed to public transport, with 177 new cases reported.
The Health Ministry posted the epidemiologic tracing of those confirmed to have contracted the virus on its website, but a surge of users attempting to access the information has brought the site down repeatedly.
A confirmed carrier of COVID-19 traveled on Thursday from Ashdod to the Haredi city of Elad.
Two other people who were exposed to the virus traveled on an inter-city bus from Tel Aviv to Netanya.
A day earlier, seven people who had since been confirmed to have the virus also traveled on public buses.
Since Midnight on Saturday, 32 passengers using public buses, have tested positive with COVID-19, double the number of the day before.
On Sunday, queues of people waiting to board buses made social distancing impossible in major bus stations after the number of passengers on any given bus was increased to 46 following a cabinet decision on Thursday.
Ilan, a bus driver who was confirmed with the virus in April and has since recovered, said he is frightened to work with the public.
“Some passengers remove their face masks after they board the bus. It feels like we have been abandoned and the partitions between drivers and passengers that had been promised were never installed."
Another driver said there is no doubt that drivers are exposed to whatever passengers bring with them.
“Many board without face masks and I can feel their breath near my face," he said, adding that it would be months before partitions are erected in the buses.
“I know of three drivers who have recently tested positive," he said.
Erel Avineri, professor of Transportation Research at Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering, believes the true number of contagions due to public transportation is higher than reported by health officials.
"If social distancing is required everywhere, it should be observed on buses as well,” he said, criticizing the government for making unclear decisions that were based on political rivalries and a lack of available buses.
Avineri said that the Health Ministry's failure to publish updated numbers of infections on buses deprived the public of the ability to make measured decisions about the possible risk of using that mode of transportation.
https://wnyt.com/commit-to-kids/cuomo-summer-day-camps/5748794/
ReplyDeleteGov. Cuomo says summer day camps can open across New York State on June 29. However, he has not made a decision on sleep-away camps yet.
Something was suspicious when Agudah Fresser affiliated camps who are pressuring parents to add to the pile on of pestering State Governors made a vague mention that they are also working with a non-Jewish camp association.
ReplyDeleteI smelled a rat & investigated to find out that unzerra greedy Fresser camp owners are referring to the YMCA's camp association, roshei taivos for the Young Men's Christian Association - made famous in the Disco music era by the open homosexual music band "The Village People"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k
picture Avi Shafran in cowboy hat & Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzky in Indian Chief headdress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscular_Christianity
This is the particlar Notzri shita of the YMCA founders that carries on until today, that it is a religious duty to Yoshke to keep building your physical stamina & physique / body attributes - in other words, summer camp must go on to arrive at these neo-Hellenist goals.
My oh my, how the Agudah constantly evolves from Chaim Dovid Zweibel rubbing shoulders with galochim (adorned with oversize Crosses) to plot joint Vatican-Agudah sabotage of legislation against child molesters, to conspiring with these Yevonim how to kill off kids with a virus as if they are Cuomo dealing with the elderly population.
https://acacamps.app.box.com/s/7gkh9buu3ntssx2v38gajg4z94631lag
The study the YMCA commissioned to falsely claim it is "safe" to open overnight camps was authored by Environmental Health & Engineering, Inc.
The President of this company is a fellow named McCarthy who is a paid consultant to the pro-Communist China "World Health Organization" who jointly, initially tried to convince the world that the virus does not spread between humans and fought to stop US efforts to safeguard against the virus. President Trump has cut all US funding to this vile organization.
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/1867032/eichenstein-applauds-cuomo-for-opening-ny-summer-day-camps.html
ReplyDeleteWho are the loser doctors who the Agudah Fressers cobbled together to vouch to government officials that it's "safe" to open overnight camps?
ReplyDeleteThe first is Moshe Shmuel Lazar, a YU guy who is not an MD, he is an Osteopath. Osteopaths are not recognized as doctors in most countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniosacral_therapy
Osteopaths believe in quack medicine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1808471/
Osteopathic medicine has been highly criticized for lack of research & lack of scientific inquiry
Moshe's brother Chaim seems to have had important shtellers wherever Shelly Silver had influence. And he is mechuton of a shady Silver associate who some say is even more corrupt than Silver himself.
The 2nd loser doctor is Seth Kurtz.
ReplyDeleteOne website says he speaks fluent Hungarian. I think I already don't like him.
Kurtz is a product of co-ed Yeshiva of Flatbush, who has practices in many frumma neighborhoods including KJ. We all recently saw what happens in KJ - doctors are driven out of town if they tell the truth about contagions.
When Seth Kurtz was named Medical Director of the newly open Care 365 walk in clinic in Monsey, he was forced to tell NY State some uncomfortable facts that he hates to advertise, so you will not see these facts anywhere except a government website. He apparently couldn't get into even the lowest tier med school so he went to the 3rd World country Grenada where the Veisseh population of that island nation is only seven tenths of 1%. He only came back to the States to finish up & graduate which you see him touting without any mention of Grenada. Kurtz also had to reveal to State officials that he is being sued for malpractice after a patient who was under his purview passed away.
Care 365 is a weird & unprofessional place in the opinion of walk in patients I asked.
https://doximity-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/t_public_profile_photo_320x320/tisqqshyyld1mkx785ax.jpg
Meet Agudah "winner" Seth Kurtz
Hachut hameshulosh lo bimehaira yenataik!
ReplyDeleteDer dritter ferd on the Agudah Death Panel is also Modern Orthodox, Dr. Moshe Schlusselberg of the 5 Towns.
What may be very notable & telling here is that Schlusselberg is on the Board of Young Israel of Woodmere. Could it be that Schlusselberg is a contrarian because he is trying to show up the shul's associate rav Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt? Rabbi Glatt was from the first to sound the pandemic alarm while the Agudah Fressers completely ignored him, pushing everyone to get infected at Purim mesibos. And Rabbi Glatt continues to take the path of cautious harchokos that appear to be the diametric opposite of Schlusselberg.
Schlusselberg attended a Mexican med school. That's interesting considering the Gringo has zero Spanish accent & thus likely did not grow up in Mexico.
Patients tell me Schlusselberg's practice has slimy rules to nickel & dime them with dubious fees.
Someone adds Schlusselberg once tried to use him for something which gave him a little glimpse into his character.
So Agudah Fressers, what is going on here? With all of your eigener doctors you still had to outsource from the Modern Orthodox? Could it be you shopped around very hard for doctors with the most reckless shitos which even your own physician-gourmands who religiously attend every Agudah Fresser Convention did not make the cut?
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/featured/1866828/read-why-trash-bins-being-removed-from-nyc-streets-this-morning.html
ReplyDeleteThe Agudah Fressers put out a press release how to deal with the NYPD if they stop anyone during curfew, going to minyan or mikvah.
ReplyDeleteForget for a minute that probably most minyanim are virus transmission zones & that men have no business going to mikva until the virus goes away.
What the hell is wrong with the Agudah? It is sakonas nefoshos to go outside! The savages have brutally beaten many victims & in some cases killed people.
The Agudah is telling the women, go ahead, go to the mikve, "shliach mitzvah ano nizaken". Nothing can happen to you, TRUST US!!!
ReplyDeleteWho ever heard of such a thing that someone covers up that a close relative is a molester?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/greville-janners-daughter-accused-of-using-role-as-rabbi-to-clear-his-name-rb0tvv83c
Greville Janner’s daughter has been accused at a public inquiry of misusing her position as a prominent (Reform) rabbi to discredit child abuse allegations against the former Labour MP.
Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner’s campaign to clear her father’s name is said to have left some of her congregation feeling they would be unable to report their own experiences.
Migdal Emunah, a group that works with abuse survivors in the Jewish community, said it fell out with Ms Janner-Klausner when she asked it to “stand up publicly in support of her father”.
Janner, who was an MP for 27 years before being made a peer, died in 2015 while awaiting trial on charges that he sexually abused residents at care homes in and around Leicester.
Most of the looters and rioters arrested by the NYPD over the past several days are immediately released as a direct result of New York’s new bail-reform law, New York City police chief Terrence Monahan told the New York Post on Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteWhile the city police made over 650 arrests on Monday night alone, Monahan said that “just about all of them” will be released without bail.
“We had some arrests in Brooklyn where they had guns, [and] hopefully [Brooklyn district attorney] Eric Gonzalez will keep them in, [but] I can’t guarantee that’ll happen,” Monahan said. “But when it comes to a burglary [at] a commercial store, which is looting, they’re back out. . . . Because of bail reform, you’re back out on the street the next day. You cannot be held on any sort of bail. I spoke to [Manhattan district attorney] Cy Vance about that, he told me there’s nothing he can do.”
In the wake of the continuing rise of infections in Israel’s schools, the Health Ministry is expected to recommend that all middle and high schools be re-closed for the rest of the year, Channel 12 News reported on Tuesday afternoon
ReplyDeleteRan Erez, chairman of the Secondary School Teachers’ Association, said on Reshet Bet on Monday that high school students should resume online learning. “The teachers can’t deal with constantly telling the students to put on their masks. Instead of teaching, we’re policing.”
Hey! My Gerrorist chevra were supposed to make sure this didn't happen! Litzman, dee shlufst?! Maran Shmiel Kaminetzky is going to have a fit, stomping up & down!
ReplyDeleteYWN has been informed by the Chaim V’Chessed organization on Wednesday evening that the Interior Ministry suddenly retracted permission for single students to enter Israel.
In recent weeks, the Interior Ministry had developed a program for educational institutions to obtain entry permits for their students to enter Israel. Many yeshivah bochurim have already applied for these permits and received them. Dozens of bochurim are already en route to Israel.
On Wednesday, the Interior Ministry suddenly reversed its decision and not only will the entry permits not be issued anymore to single students but even the permits already issued are now void. If bochurim arrive in Israel with the permit, they will be denied entry into the country.
According to Chaim V’Chessed, only students already airborne at this time will be allowed to enter Israel.
Married students and their families will still be able to receive entry permits and use already issued entry permits to enter Israel
Parents of single bochurim should NOT send their children to Israel at this time, even with proper visas.
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri sent a letter to Roshei Yeshivas, saying: “Due to the deterioration of the coronavirus in Israel, I’m unfortunately forced to halt the entry of single talmudei yeshivos,”
When the giant among us said just over a week ago, " Let's look at the numbers in 4 weeks again.... The science will tell us what is really going on, not the CDC or Agudah," that was a keen observation! Paul is always right... not 50% or even 90% -- 100%:
ReplyDelete9,935 Israeli Students & Staff In Isolation, 217 Diagnosed, 31 Schools Closed!
Paul, have rachmonus on the "Torah Giants of Agudath Israel" -- the "heimish coronavirus" knocked out their brains!
ReplyDeleteResearchers: Coronavirus May Affect The Brain More Than We Thought!
While it's true that the rasha merushe Sar in Albany channeled all the elterra to be killed off in the batei zikna, probably so that the billions in (Medicaid, etc) savings from their disappearance helps balance the massive budget deficit, don't think that he is the only villain in these redifos. The hospitals are guilty for their own greedy reasons and so are unzerra Agudah askonim!
ReplyDeleteExcept for a yochid here & there like in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, who shreyed gevalt because he wanted to save neshomos from certain death, the vast majority of the askan administrators-owners have no shame & no morals. They sat by silently not uttering a peep as the Sar & his Kapo Commissioner of Gezunt murdered thousands, many of them Yidden r"l! The askonim were silent because if the word got out of an infection breakout, mishpochos would arrive in droves to extract their parents. So while the Sar was inflicting a financial hit on the gesheft, public knowledge of the facts would cause an even bigger loss of profit. The askonim also did not merely remain silent. They lied to mishpochos & they forged documents to hide infections, sometimes reversing course because an outside doctor would start questioning suspicious records.
The nursing home industry already had the bad reputation that Agudah askonim bounce checks, disguise all personal expenses in many layers of LLCs, karg zich on medical supplies for patients including in ways that are so disgusting they might not be fit to print on a family oriented website, outright commit Federal fraud, etc. Lehoraya the little big mouth Agudah askan Lefkowitz was a convicted fraudster and you could spend a college semester poring over the court papers on Elly Kleinman. This is just getting warmed up.
Noch the pandemic we also know that the Agudah chevra have no remaining scruples even after wading through the above swamp! Remember this the next time someone is honored at the Agudah dinner or gives an "ethics" lecture at the Fresser convention. That Fresser nickname deserves a Pulitzer prize.
The Politically Correct Gestapo is now outing people & getting them fired from their jobs for saying "All lives matter" because you see only Shvartzas are allowed to be racist to non-Shvartzas and only Shvartzas are allowed to monn rachmonnus for themselves by both peaceful and violent means, vos meh vilt, and even if the rachmonnus for them is misplaced.
ReplyDeleteLawrence, Cedarhurst & Atlantic Beach were under State of Emergency lockdown last night with a 5 pm curfew and massive mobilization of Nassau & State Police because the Shvartzas announced a 6 pm protest in neighboring Far Rockaway. The Shvartzas asked the Yidden to join the protest. Because the Yidden were smart enough to read between the lines that the 'request' doubled as a strong suggestion or subtle threat, they were held hostage into showing up to the virus-intense farce so that their batei medroshim, gesheften & homes should not ransacked. Poor Yanky Brach who the Shvartzas recognized as an askan, if there was ever an example of high risk zolt er zein gezunt, was even having the microphone forced on him to address the mob. These Shvartzas are the new North Korea that it's not enough to be obedient, but they force you to speak up with shvochim of them, or else.
A za crazy velt. The Minnesota "martyr" was jailed for 5 years for armed robbery. He was involved in many other crimes. He was arrested on that fateful day for passing counterfeit money at a store. Until after the tummel from his death it was takka mutter for police to knee the neck of a criminal if police shotz him up as dangerous. The guy was I think 6'6" & weighed a lot. The oylem goylem has been enriching his estate with $2 million A DAY on GoFundMe. His funeral is going to be a propaganda circus mit Al Sharpton, Sleepy Joe Biden & who knows how many other mushchossim.
A business owner in the Midwest was angry over all the looting & vandalism in his geggen so he commented "then they wonder why they get knees to necks". The PC Gestapo jumped to cancel all his contracts & forced him out of his own company. The only way the contracts are being renewed is after he sells back to the original owner who is then flipping the gesheft to Shvartzas only. This is Totalitarian takeover of private property.
These 'protesters' were first empowered by Obama. This is another thing he did to engineer America into it's own destruction. The Ribono shel Oylam should enable President Trump to put a stop to these savages.
I was wondering at first why R' Shmuel was rolling around on the ground this morning in a fit, thrashing his arms & legs up & down:
ReplyDeleteWith camps in limbo if they will be allowed to open, NY Governor Cuomo says a decision on whether sleep away camps can open this summer in New York is yet to be made. In an interview this morning, Cuomo told Long Island News Radio that the issue is the inflammatory illness believed to be related to the cronavirus that has been affecting children, and concerns over spreading it.
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ReplyDeletethis is the first time the Shvartzers shoved the mic in Brach's face
when they did it a second time, after a Shvartzer had ranted & slobbered all over it, Brach was visibly frightened & disgusted, pushing the mic away from his face while trying to somewhat diplomatically decline
so now part of the Shvartzer blackmail of society is go ahead & get infected while we act as if there is no pandemic
sheesh! how can we be sure that Antifa / Black Lives Matter are not another Kaminetzky subplot?
UOJ, HELP!
ReplyDeleteThe Chassidishe peasant types had THOUSANDS of their kids this morning waiting at bus stops with knap sacks & lunch boxes waiting to be taken to yeshiva.
Ramapo Police as is well known will do absolutely nothing.
The Rockland Sheriff, it depends how angry Ed Day gets that he might order a token enforcement action. Even if he does they will probably start that shpiel from the Satmar Aronis in KJ as advised by their Agudah Fresser lawyer to tell responding officers all kinds of bubba maysos how the kids are not technically attending yeshiva, they are there for some other implausible purpose.