Social distancing

COVID-19: When your pandemic outdoor minyan folds up - opinion

While obviously ecstatic that COVID has been tamed, I’m saddened that this minyan – a positive outgrowth of the plague – is being shut down.

AN OUTDOOR minyan prays in Modi’in, September 2020.
MANHI IS working to make Zoom teaching more interesting and effective.

The end of COVID and the decline of Zoom - opinion

 Employees of Israeli company ParaSonic, demonstrate using a prototype of the company's hand-held device that kills lice and their eggs, in Tel Aviv, Israel October 22, 2018.

Israel will probably never be ahead of head lice, Israeli research shows - exclusive

 Rabbi Susan Abramson (left) and Cantorial Soloist Ben Silver of Temple Shalom Emeth in Burlington, Mass. lead a prerecorded Friday night service on Jan. 7, 2022.

US synagogues face tough COVID questions (again) as Omicron surges


Amid COVID-19, new art exhibit 'Zooms in' on young lives

The exhibition name has a double meaning, hinting at the deeper gaze into the lives of the youth that the exhibition depicts, while also referencing the Zoom video conferences.

A PHOTOGRAPH taken by Holon student Yuval Elhasid.

Job offers for full-time gamers are available for the first time in Israel

More than NIS 2 million was raised by the eSports organization "Team Finest" to employ gamers working remotely from their own living rooms.

From left to right: Yotam Nachshon and Ruvik Milkis

Amid COVID-19, masks and social distancing have shrouded our identities

The corona age has forced us to socially distance and shroud much of our identities. It turns out that we cannot even rely on our names to define us anymore.

Face masks

Masks are much more likely to disrupt facial perception - study

Ben-Gurion University researchers conduct a recent study that evaluates how masks disrupt facial recognition and perception.

Shoppers wear face masks and walk around a fashion shopping center in Ashdod, as restrictions over the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ease around Israel, May 5, 2020.

COVID-19 will worsen Israeli universities' dropout epidemic - opinion

Israel relies on an educated, skilled work force to thrive as the Start-Up Nation.

DEMONSTRATORS CALL for financial aid and equality in higher education, outside the Council for Higher Education offices in Jerusalem in October.

Going from urban planning to social planning amid the coronavirus

Public-space planning took on the meaning not only of leisure, recreation and sports, but also behavioral elements.

PEDESTRIANS CROSS the Jerusalem Light Rail tracks on Jaffa Road.

Sayeret Matkal alumni, Ichilov experts make 'Mobileye of social distance'

The laser beam marks an arc on the ground and reminds those around it to keep their distance.

When one wears the Myzone device it serves as a living reminder of the importance of maintaining social distance.

Israel's new virus surveillance system detects masks and social distancing

However, the monitoring system does not have facial recognition capabilities.

Surveillance, illustrative

Two high ranking police officers caught breaking coronavirus lockdown rules

The meal itself took place in a small, air-conditioned room with no windows, as waiters came in and out of the room intermittently.

Israeli police officers clash with Ultra Orthodox Jewish men during a protest against the enforcement of coronavirus emergency regulations, in the Ultra Orthodox jewish neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, October 4, 2020

Brazil registers 5,000,694 confirmed cases of new coronavirus

Though the number of daily cases has come down from a peak in July, public health experts warn that Brazil is ignoring social distancing precautions and faces the danger of a second wave.

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Brazil