Pandemic

Stress is the silent pandemic, but recovery starts at home

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A jackal is seen at Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv, September 3, 2022

Israeli study: Movement of wild animals can help us predict next pandemic

A researcher holds a Jerash tooth used to help identify the origin of the first plague.

DNA confirms Yersinia pestis as cause of the first recorded pandemic 1,500 years ago

Covid-19 pandemic tied to 5.5-month surge in brain aging across population. Illustration.

Covid-19 pandemic tied to 5.5-month surge in brain aging across population


From Lockdown to Light: Sabina’s New EP Shines Bright

The singer-songwriter embraces Hebrew for the first time in a six-track release shaped by love, family, and life after the pandemic.

 Sabina - New Day

Crisis, conflict, and the kindest generation - opinion

For six years, Israeli children have known about pandemic, war, and little else, but they have not allowed their tumultuous adolescence to define them.

 NATIONAL SERVICE volunteers at the ADI Negev-Nahalat Eran rehabilitation village shower a special education student with severe disabilities with affection, as though he were their own sibling.

Pandemic aftermath: Chronic fatigue cases surge across Germany

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of individuals affected by ME/CFS has increased. Experts note that the incidence has likely doubled during this period.

 Pandemic aftermath: Chronic fatigue cases surge across Germany.

The rise of homeschooling: A global trend shaped by technology and pandemic challenges


First foreign tourists since pandemic invited to celebrate Kim Jong Il's birthday in North Korea

Tour Rason's top sites and celebrate Kim Jong Il's Birthday in North Korea, Koryo Tours announced.

 North Korean waitress serves beer to foreign tourists, Kaesong Folk Hotel.

CIA concludes COVID-19 more likely originated from lab leak than natural causes

Agency assigns 'low confidence' to conclusion, evidence remains inconclusive.

 Wuhan, China, October 2020.

COVID-19 virus likely originated from lab leak, CIA says

The newly appointed CIA chief, John Ratcliffe, noted last week that one of his priorities would be assessing the origins of the pandemic.

 A man wearing a face mask walks past an image of a virus November 24, 2020. Oldham, United Kingdom.

Israel can't afford to take threat of another virus lightly amid war - editorial

If there is going to be a global medical crisis once more, Israel’s leaders, who are busy enough as is with another life-threatening crisis, must learn from their past choices.

A woman wears a protective mask during the coronavirus pandemic

US congressional report concludes COVID-19 likely originated from Wuhan lab leak

The report states that SARS-CoV-2 'probably emerged due to a laboratory-related accident or research.'

 State Public Health Laboratory in Exton Tests for COVID-19.

Black Plague killed farmers thousands of years before 14th-century Europe - study

Researchers identified at least three plague outbreaks spanning six generations that they could trace in one of the studied families.

A plague doctor and his typical apparel during the 17th Century Outbreak.

At least 100 Israelis infected with West Nile virus, most patients concentrated in central Israel

For the most part, the virus is considered a mild disease, but in some cases, it causes severe morbidity and even death.

 Aedes aegypti mosquitos are seen in a lab at the Fiocruz institute on January 26, 2016 in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil.