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Shira Hanau

Shira Hanau

Shira Hanau is a reporter at JTA. She was previously a staff writer at the New York Jewish Week and has written for the Forward, Columbia Journalism Review and the Harvard Divinity Bulletin.

A healthcare worker prepares a vaccine at a facility operated by the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Rabin Square, Dec. 31, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Miriam Aster-Flash90)
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4th Covid shot increases antibodies fivefold, data from Israel shows

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA January 5, 2022January 5, 2022
A woman receives a fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv Jan. 2, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Avshalom Sassoni-Flash90)
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Israel begins administering 4th Covid vaccine dose

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA January 3, 2022
A flock of gray cranes are seen in the Hula Valley in northern Israel, Dec. 9, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Shang Hao-Xinhua via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Scientists worry an avian flu killing thousands of cranes in Israel could spread to humans

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 30, 2021
John T. Earnest stands at his arraignment hearing in San Diego County Superior Court in San Diego, April 30, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Nelvin C. Cepeda-Pool-Getty Images)
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Poway synagogue shooter gets a second lifetime jail sentence in federal court

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 29, 2021
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu attends a celebration for his 86th birthday on Oct. 7, 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo/JTA-Gianluigi Guercia-AFP via Getty Images)
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Desmond Tutu, who identified with Jews but criticized Israel, dies at 90

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 27, 2021
boy receiving injection
Posted inNews

Israel likely to go for 4th dose to fight spread of omicron

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 22, 2021December 22, 2021
Ben Gurion International Airport, Nov. 28, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Avshalom Sassoni-Flash90)
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Israel may bar travel to United States as NY consulate staff walloped by latest Covid wave

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 20, 2021December 20, 2021
Women and children carry Torah scrolls from an old synagogue building to a new building in Nabagoye, Uganda. (Photo/Courtesy Be’chol Lashon)
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‘Who gets to define Judaism?’ Israel rejects Ugandan Jew’s application for citizenship again

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 16, 2021December 16, 2021
A member of the Women of the Wall clutches a Torah scroll cover as she is surrounded by Israeli security forces holding back protesters at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 2021. (Photo/RNS-AP-Maya Alleruzzo)
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Ceding to religious right, Israeli leaders table plan for egalitarian prayer space at Western Wall

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 13, 2021
Visitors walk by the logos for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, Dec. 7, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Kevin Frayer-Getty Images)
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While US officials plan to boycott Beijing Olympics, Israeli officials expected to attend

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 9, 2021

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