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Lockdown lifted as Israel’s corona count hits around 10,000

Lockdown lifted as Israel’s corona count hits around 10,000

86 people dead * Testing in senior facilities increases * PM slams Bennett for public attack   The curfew and other restrictions imposed on Israelis… Read More ›

Trump voices hope for ‘leveling-off’ of coronavirus in US hot spots

Trump voices hope for ‘leveling-off’ of coronavirus in US hot spots

Most states have ordered residents to stay home except for essential trips to slow the spread of the virus in the United States.   The… Read More ›

Trump’s friend in coma from coronavirus is a Jewish real estate mogul

Trump’s friend in coma from coronavirus is a Jewish real estate mogul

Chera, 78, is part of the tight-knit Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn. In 2014, he was honored at the gala dinner of the American Friends… Read More ›

Report: Israel To Open Quarantine Hotels For Ultra-Orthodox COVID-19 Patients

Report: Israel To Open Quarantine Hotels For Ultra-Orthodox COVID-19 Patients

  JERUSALEM (JNS) — Two “quarantine hotels” are being prepared to house ultra-Orthodox coronavirus patients in Israel beginning on Tuesday, Hebrew media reported on Monday.… Read More ›

Israel: Nurses In Training Enlisted To Help With Corona Patients

Israel: Nurses In Training Enlisted To Help With Corona Patients

  JERUSALEM (JNS) — Given the anticipated shortages of hospital staff able to treat those infected with the coronavirus (COVID-19), the Israeli Ministry of Health… Read More ›

Coronavirus: Gov. green lights restrictions, cannot walk more than 100 m

Coronavirus: Gov. green lights restrictions, cannot walk more than 100 m

Supermarkets, pharmacies, gas stations and banks will continue to operate as usual.   Israelis will no longer have freedom of movement after the government approved… Read More ›

DHS: Pandemic Measures Cut Illegal Border Crossings By Half

DHS: Pandemic Measures Cut Illegal Border Crossings By Half

  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Trump administration official said Sunday that illegal border crossings have dropped by half as the strictest U.S.-Mexico border policies yet… Read More ›

Online learning for elementary and middle school students to end Thursday

Online learning for elementary and middle school students to end Thursday

Summer vacation, fall holidays to be shortened; teachers reach agreement with treasury, will get paid leave until after Passover   Online learning for elementary and… Read More ›

Trump mulls sending all who cross border illegally to Mexico

Trump mulls sending all who cross border illegally to Mexico

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration is considering a plan to immediately return to Mexico all people who cross the southern border illegally because… Read More ›

Amazon to stop accepting all products other than medical supplies and household staples to its warehouses amid coronavirus crisis — read the memo it just sent sellers

Amazon to stop accepting all products other than medical supplies and household staples to its warehouses amid coronavirus crisis — read the memo it just sent sellers

  Amazon told sellers and vendors on Tuesday that it was suspending shipments of all nonessential products to its warehouses to deal with the increased… Read More ›

Ministers approve controversial phone tracking program to halt virus

Ministers approve controversial phone tracking program to halt virus

Emergency measure okayed unanimously in late night phone vote; PM says order to snoop on citizens with advanced technology will be in effect for 30… Read More ›

Number of Israel’s coronavirus cases rises to 178, say health officials

Number of Israel’s coronavirus cases rises to 178, say health officials

Health Ministry says most of the patients are hospitalized, with a handful of the infected being treated at home; the number represents an increase of… Read More ›

No more daycare, restaurants, gyms or prayer quorums: The new virus regulations

No more daycare, restaurants, gyms or prayer quorums: The new virus regulations

Following up on Netanyahu’s announcement, Health Ministry lays out long list of businesses, services and activities that Israelis will now have to do without  … Read More ›

OP-ED: The day the PM, trying to stop a pandemic, asked us to rethink human contact

OP-ED: The day the PM, trying to stop a pandemic, asked us to rethink human contact

No handshakes, hugs, kisses. Caps on weddings, communal prayer, concerts. No overseas travel. It’s no way to live, yet in the virus’s shadow, we are… Read More ›

Benjamin Netanyahu may quarantine all travelers who enter Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu may quarantine all travelers who enter Israel

39 Israelis diagnosed with coronavirus. Health Ministry clarifies that all Israelis who attended AIPAC and returned after March 5 must enter home-isolation.   As 39… Read More ›

Likud demands recount after final results published

Likud demands recount after final results published

Netanyahu’s bloc stays at 58 seats.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party demanded a recount of Monday’s election and to check every polling station’s… Read More ›

Politics in a time of pandemic

Politics in a time of pandemic

Opinion: Only by trusting one another and the mechanisms of the state can we protect ourselves and our children from coronavirus; the country’s leaders should… Read More ›

Coronavirus spreads across Israel: Patients 13, 14, 15 diagnosed

Coronavirus spreads across Israel: Patients 13, 14, 15 diagnosed

The new patients include a high school student, a principal and a young man who recently returned from Italy.   Israelis who had been in… Read More ›

Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar to address AIPAC by video after organization departs from 2016 rules

Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar to address AIPAC by video after organization departs from 2016 rules

  WASHINGTON (JTA) – Two more Democratic presidential candidates are now on the speakers’ list at this year’s AIPAC conference, after the Israel lobby group… Read More ›

Naftali Bennett signs order to seize funds transferred from Iran to Hamas

Naftali Bennett signs order to seize funds transferred from Iran to Hamas

Israel’s Defense Minister Naftali Bennett signed an order Thursday to seize some $4 million in funds transferred from Iran to Hamas in the Gaza Strip.… Read More ›