Haredi sector stocks up on plasticware but generates less waste per capita than Israeli average; they don't use electricity on weekends, don't frequent air travel and have very few cars; is Israel’s black-clad community, in fact, green?

In what appears to be a pandemic within a pandemic, record number of youths have reported becoming addicted to painkillers since onset of COVID; some cite depression and anxiety, while others sheer boredom, which exasperated during multiple lockdowns