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Making the Desert Bloom Doesn’t Stop – Even for Corona!
Join us – get better informed about Israel and help the desert blossom!
April 1, 2020 | Israel Today Staff
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We are not letting the Coronavirus stop us from making the biblical desert green as we promised.
Due to the current situation and the necessary precautionary measures, we had to postpone the tree planting scheduled for March 19 by two weeks.
Tomorrow morning, we drive down to Nitzana along the Egyptian border to plant another 1,400 olive trees. We had to apply for a special permit to do this as the current curfew does not allow us to drive that far south. Among other things, the regulations stipulate that no more than two people may drive together in a car. It was difficult to find workers who could participate in tree planting.
VIDEO: Very close to our groves and vineyards is the Lavan Stream, which is now rich in water due to the blessed rains
This is really not an easy time we live in, but it’s good that we have a reason to get out of the house, where we have been holed up working for the past two weeks. We want to plant almost 4 hectares of desert land, which we have prepared over the past few months. The seedlings must be planted urgently into the sand in order to survive. We will report back to you on Thursday with photos and videos.
Here we will plant
The Corona crisis has again reminded us of the vital importance of Israel’s agriculture and to maintain the ability to feed herself independent of imports from other countries.
We would like to again thank all of those who have helped in that mission by participating in our “Make the Desert Bloom Again” project. Toda Raba!
As an independent news agency and investor in making the desert green, we can do a lot more if you become an active member. For this reason, we are offering a special package at this time.
Stay active! You can read and share Israel Today as you participate in planting the Land of Israel. As the Jewish saying goes, “If there is no flour for bread, then there is no Torah.” Work and faith go hand-in-hand. It is our adherence to this ethos that will determine what kind of nation we become.
Just arrived – the new olive trees are waiting to be planted
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Call to Pray for Israel’s Corona-Fighting Health Workers
This is how you can pray for Israel’s exhausted healthcare workers, including many believers in Yeshua
April 1, 2020 | Israel Today Staff
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Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
A faith-based fellowship of Israeli healthcare workers (the Healthcare Believers Fellowship, or HBF) is asking for our prayers. The organization is made up of Arab and Jewish doctors and nurses serving in all areas of the healthcare system around the country. The Corona crisis is stretching their ability to care for all the patients, and they are crying out for help. Here are their prayer requests:
4 members of the HBF are still in quarantine. Pray for them and hundreds of their colleagues who are also kept from working;
Supplies:
Pray for a stop to the theft of masks, gloves and alcogel from healthcare institutions;
For the supplies mentioned above to be provided for the working staff. We have gotten requests from frontline workers asking to pray that they will get the essential protection in order to work safely.
For a change in the attitude of the workers, especially managers. That a spirit of support and genuine concern for each other and “coming together” will come in the healthcare fields:
A very strong spirit of competition lies over the healthcare fields and is very evident at this time. In a time of war, soldiers who are going to the war front come together, care for each other. This is not always characteristic of the healthcare fields at war!
For strength: Doctors, nurses, orderlies and cleaners are exhausted. They are running often without food, drinks, or even having the time to use the restrooms or sit down during a shift. The cleaning teams are under a heavy workload at this time;
For wisdom: Head nurses have to cope with special requests from the staff because of children at home. Planning work schedules is a nightmare right now, especially when some doctors or nurses are infected and have to be in quarantine for 14 days!
For safety: Nurses and doctors on the frontline of clinics, emergency rooms and intensive care units are working under the fear of getting infected by their patients or their colleagues, some of whom were or still are in isolation (one of them had to be hospitalized);
Students who have studied in Israel will be able to take their National Registration exam on April 6th. BUT our brothers and sisters who have studied outside of Israel will not be allowed to take the test at this time. They will be called in at a later date, which means that they will enter the health fields at a date that is still unknown.
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Israel’s Top Rabbi Threatens Those Who Violate Corona Guidelines
Religious Jews who don’t stay home will be “persecuted,” decrees Rabbi Kanievsky
April 1, 2020 | Israel Today Staff
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Shlomi Cohen/FLASH90
He at first dismissed, if not completely ignored the government’s guidelines for curbing the coronavirus outbreak. Now, one of Israel’s top rabbis is threatening “persecution” for any religious Jews who violate the quarantine.
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky is considered one of the leaders of the overall ultra-Orthodox Jewish movement in Israel. In the early days of the coronavirus crisis, he was panned by the secular public for keeping yeshivas and synagogues open, a policy that many say contributed to the rapid spread of the disease over the past two weeks.
But after government officials approached him personally to convey the true danger of COVID-19, Kanievsky quickly changed his tune, and now considers it pikuch nefesh (the Jewish imperative to put saving lives before anything) to adhere to the guidelines coming out of the Ministry of Health.
The religious news portal Kipa reported on Sunday that Rabbi Kanievsky had issued a decree warning that “anyone who does not heed the instructions of the doctors – he will be persecuted!”
The rabbi’s decree further obligated members of the ultra-Orthodox community to inform the Police should any of their neighbors violate the quarantine.
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