Quotes of the Day from Xinhua World News, Aug. 2 Xinhua 03 Aug 2021, 09:18 GMT+10 JERUSALEM -- "We need to live in a way that takes the recent outbreak into consideration but also enables the economy, the schools and daily lives to continue as much as possible," said Nadav Davidovitch, director of the School of Public Health at Ben-Gurion University and chair of the Association of Public Health Physicians in Israel. Israeli hospitals have begun reopening their COVID-19 wards this week, as a surge in infections has resulted in a spike in severe cases requiring hospitalization. - - - - PYONGYANG -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Sunday night urged South Korea to cancel its regular joint military exercises with the United States and said a North-South leader-level summit remains unlikely in the short term, the official Korean Central News Agency reported.