'Entire buildings full of sick children': Behind the measles outbreak around Jerusalem

A new measles epidemic is spreading in ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh. As Israel's Health Ministry representatives turn to rabbis to encourage vaccines, there's growing frustration among doctors: 'There are even cases of 'measles parties''

The outbreak of a dangerous and highly contagious disease in Israel's largest city should, in ordinary times, dominate the public agenda. But the public has long forgotten what ordinary times look like, which is why the measles outbreak in Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh has been prioritized far less than the war in Gaza, the hostages, the ousting of the attorney general or the draft exemption law.

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