Shlomi Tova, 46, hoped for health on leaving the pain and isolation of virus ward, where adults ‘cry like babies,’ but he’s one of many crushed by seemingly unshakable aftereffects

A homegrown effort to trace cases within the city’s Orthodox population struggles under the onslaught of new cases, but Jewish schools say their protective measures are working

FDA vaccine advisors to meet December 10 to discuss approval; Germany's Merkel expresses concern that poorer nations will not have access to vaccines

While invitees are told they should wear masks, many are fearful of attending, given likelihood event will be held indoors and history of Trump hosting 'superspreader' events

Reason for spike in Health Ministry's count not immediately clear, but appears to include previously uncounted fatalities from past week

Ceremony for grandson of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum attended by thousands, arranged to avoid detection by secular authorities, according to New York Post

Group says Friday opening was always planned to be single-day 'pilot,' will wait until government gives okay to get back to business

PM says government sticking to schedule amid clamor to reopen all grades in low infection areas; Gantz complains nobody told him about meeting being moved

Heiko Maas says recent comparison to Anne Frank and resistance fighter Sophie Scholl 'trivializes the Holocaust and shows an unbearable forgetting of history'

Positive test level hits 2.8% and transmission rate at 1.06; health minister backs opening schools for all grades, but says other eased restrictions would then have to wait