The pandemic has highlighted slow government action, long-term neglect of health system infrastructure and demographic factors.
Elias Feinzilberg, a 102-year-old Holocaust survivor, stands at the window of his home in Jerusalem as Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day under coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions, April 21, 2020. The Hebrew words on the placard read: "Remembering close-by, embracing from afar."(photo credit: RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS)ByELLIOT M. BERRY
