Two ultra-Orthodox bastions account for 37% of Israel’s virus deaths – Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, focal points of the community, were disproportionately hit by COVID-19, but the extent of that impact was not known until now | Timesofisrael

Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, two strongholds of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox population, account for 37 percent of the country’s coronavirus deaths, according to official figures.
“We thought it would be bad for the Haredi community, but not this bad,” Tehila Kalagy, a Haredi academic who studies health policy in her community, told The Times of Israel on Sunday, calling the figures “quite surprising.”