Nachman Ash

‘Hindsight is 20/20’: Israel's lessons after 3 years of COVID-19

HEALTH AFFAIRS: On Israel’s three-year COVID anniversary, ‘czars’ look forward and back.

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RONNI GAMZU, then-CEO of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, receives a COVID-19 vaccine in December 2020.
Health and Interior Minister Arye Deri at the handover ceremony for the Interior Ministry, January 1, 2023.

Arye Deri begins battle against obesity after nixing soda tax

Health Minister Deri ordered the rapid implementation of a number of steps meant to combat obesity and diabetes.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Prof. Nachman Ash celebrates the 26th anniversary of Save a Child's Heart.

Professor Nachman Ash celebrates 26 years of Save a Child's Heart

Ash met the medical professionals who were training to do work for SACH in Zambia, Ethiopia, the Palestinian Authority and Gaza.

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Health Minister Director-General Nachman Ash attends a press conference about the coronavirus, in Jerusalem on August 29, 2021.

Prof. Nachman Ash: We are at the start of a new COVID-19 wave

The Health Ministry is considering bringing back a mask mandate in enclosed spaces, but does not intend to reinstate any of the large-scale restrictions seen during previous waves.

|BySHIRA SILKOFF

Israeli hospital to kick off fourth COVID-19 shot clinical trial

Sheba has been working to get approval for the fourth coronavirus jab trial for several weeks. 

DECEMBER 26, 2021ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Children receive their dose of Covid-19 vaccine, at a Clallit vaccine center in Jerusalem on December 21, 2021.

COVID-19: Israel records 1,400 new daily cases, 67% increase in a week

As the country prepares to give the fourth vaccine to its population at risk, breakthrough infections are also increasing.

DECEMBER 23, 2021ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
Coronavirus czar Prof. Nachman Ash visits COVID department, Ziv hospital, Tzfat.

Coronavirus: 21 Omicron variant cases recorded in Israel

Health Ministry D-G: We need to extend restrictions until we know more on Omicron.

DECEMBER 6, 2021ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
Syringes with needles are seen in front of a displayed stock graph and words "Omicron SARS-CoV-2" in this illustration taken, November 27, 2021.

Vaccinated tourists may be allowed in Israel from November, US may be left out

Health Ministry D-G: Decision still pending on booster for Moderna shots

OCTOBER 9, 2021ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Travellers wear protective face masks at Terminal 3, Ben Gurion International Airport, as Israel restricts air travel more, on August 05, 2021.

7% of Israel’s serious COVID cases had three vaccine shots

There were around 460 serious and critical cases on Friday, so 7% is around 32 people, meaning less than 0.00001% of people who have had a third shot are currently in serious condition.

OCTOBER 9, 2021ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
PEOPLE IN THE 50+ age group receive a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit Health Care Center in Katzrin on Monday.

Parents scramble for COVID testing kits ahead of school on Thursday

The coronavirus cabinet will convene on Sunday for the first time in a month after being criticized for the long hiatus, as cases decline.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Coronavirus czar Prof. Nachman Ash visits COVID department, Ziv hospital, Tzfat.

COVID: Unjabbed, untested teachers in Israel can't work starting Oct. 3

Health Ministry Director-General Prof. Nachman Ash said that unvaccinated patients are straining the hospitals.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
A PARAMEDIC transports a COVID-19 patient to Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, in April 2020.

Ash: Individuals vaccinated abroad could be exempt from isolation

Despite change in isolation rules, Israeli borders remain mostly close.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
ourists walk at the Ben Gurion International Airport after entering Israel by plane, as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions ease, in Lod, near Tel Aviv, Israel

COVID: Israel surpasses 500 serious patients, number expected to drop

Health Ministry’s Director General Prof. Nachman Ash said that in the coming week they hope to see a decrease in serious morbidity thanks to the effect of the third vaccine.

AUGUST 15, 2021ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
Israeli getting the COVID vaccination at Meuhedet Health Maintenance Organization center at Jerusalem on August 11, 2021.

COVID: Bennett asks Pfizer CEO Bourla to speed up jab for children

Israel weighs booster for people as young as 40 * 445 patients in serious condition.

AUGUST 12, 2021ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett – planning strategy on getting along with Biden.