In a country used to conflict, the mounting pressure on medical facilities has some doctors warning of even worse to come
Tragic scenes of young and old suffering, hospitals swamped and medical staff strained to the breaking point by a coronavirus mutation that came from nowhere.
This could be Italy, New York, or London in March 2020, as the COVID tsunami broke across the developed world. But those scenes are actually the reality now in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, as Israel grapples with its strongest wave yet of the disease. The country shut down so quickly in the first wave last year that it emerged with less than a hundred fatalities; the second wave saw nearly 1,500 deaths by the end of October, a figure still overshadowed by staggering losses elsewhere in the world.