More than half of over-65s with COVID are from the ultra-Orthodox community

Many infected at High Holy Day prayers • Some 18 Bnei Brak residents died in past week • prominent rabbi Asher Weiss insists community adhere to health regulations, calling situation "shameful"

HAREDIM BURN garbage and protest enforcement of coronavirus restrictions in Mea She’arim earlier this week.

HAREDIM BURN garbage and protest enforcement of coronavirus restrictions in Mea She’arim earlier this week.

(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)

ByJEREMY SHARON

OCTOBER 13, 2020 20:37