Journalist Yitzchak Tessler revealed on Friday, the full statistics of the morbidity rate of the Coronavirus among the Chareidi community broken down by the city of residence of the patient.
The statistics collected have been documented since the outbreak of the virus.
To get a better understanding of how deadly this last Delta wave of the virus was, in August of 2019, some 3,497 people died due to a variety of reasons. In the same month in 2020, when the economy was mostly open, 4,023 people died, among them 396 from COVID-19. August was when the economy mostly re-opened prior to the second wave of the virus.
In August 2021, the total number of deaths in Israel was 4,213 among them were 631 death resulting from COVID, nearly double the number of deaths from the previous year.
According to the Health Ministry, the neighborhoods in Jerusalem with the highest fatality rate in deaths resulting from COVID are Pisgat Ze’ev, Kiryat Yovel, the Old City, A-Tur, Bayit Vegan, Geulah, and Gilo. The total number of fatalities due to the virus in the capital city is 925.
In Bnei Brak, 254 people have died as a result of the virus and there were 61,195 confirmed cases among the Chareidi population of the city.
In Beit Shemesh, 54 people died of the virus while there have so far been 25,481 confirmed cases among the Chareidi population of the city.
Modi’in Illit had 21 people pass away from the virus with 29,313 people contracting the virus.
In Elad, 11 people died and 15,192 confirmed cases.
Beitar Illit had 9 people die, with 14,440 confirmed cases.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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This is to show how many lives the vaccine “saved”. The variants are actually caused by the vaccine.
Before the vaccine came out they had half the number of deaths, and the government can still force me to go get this useless vaccine?
This article does not tell us how Chareidim compare to other parts of the Israeli and world populations.
Died “from” COVID vs died “with” COVID. These numbers are meaningless.
Also, are they age-adjusted? For sure not. Lots of old people die every year.
Can the Rabbi’s of these cities bring an Eglah Arufah and say Yadeinu Lo Shafchu Es Hadam Hazeh??
In New Zealand there are 27 dead to date thanks to strict adherence to masks and social distance guidelines.
It seems to be simple math that thousands of jewish lives could have been saved during corona had the Rabbi’s adopted minhag “New Zealand” as one would have thought the Torah commands us to.
Were all the Tefillos Betzibur and in person learning during this time worth all the dead?? Acc. to which Torah??
This is ridiculous. I live in Gilo and not one Hareidi person I know died from Carona. Gilo is a neighborhood with 20K Jews the majority Hilonim and Mizrachi with a rising Hareidi population. Sounds to me that they just saw Gilo and said oh must be Hareidi that died.
Secondly, Faigy your full of horse manure.
Does any body know why Monoclonal Antibody IV Therapy is not administered in Israel?? In the US it is being used very effectively.
H’aaretz had an expose a few weeks ago but the story disappeared!