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Comments reported in the media in recent days about a gradual reopening of the economy after Pesach were rejected by a senior health official on Sunday. Deputy Director-General of the…
The Israeli government agency responsible for paying unemployment benefits, the National Insurance Institute (NII), will not be able to meet the sudden, overwhelming number of applicants before Pesach due to…
Israeli police arrested the Palestinian Authority’s minister for Yerushalayim for allegedly violating an Israeli ban on Palestinian political activities in the eastern part of the city. Fadi al-Hidmi was arrested…
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin condemned the wave of defamatory remarks against the chareidi community, which some are blaming for spreading the coronavirus. In a special…
The Hamas terror group has in recent days indicated willingness to negotiate a prisoner exchange deal with Israel due to the coronavirus outbreak, sources said Sunday. The group reportedly refuses…
The government on Sunday night will discuss via phone a law that will allow the spending of an additional NIS 90 billion to assist Israelis in dealing with the coronavirus…
A shipment of millions of eggs from Spain arrived at the Ashdod port on Sunday morning, Channel 12 reported. The port workers aim to get the boat unloaded and its…
Channel 12 has yet to respond to a flood of criticism after broadcaster Rina Matzliach castigated “the chareidim” for being responsible for the spread of coronavirus by failing to follow…
Forecasts by government officials that quarantine orders could be lifted gradually after Pesach are overly optimistic – at least in Bnei Brak, said IDF Reserve General Roni Noma, who heads…
Israel’s death toll from the coronavirus rose to 47 Sunday with the passing of a 61-year-old woman at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. She suffered from underlying health problems. Earlier, an…
Labor chairman Amir Peretz notified Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz on Motzoei Shabbos that the merger agreement between their two parties has ended. This move appears to be a precursor to…
Several patients passed away over Shabbos in Israel, rising the death toll from the coronavirus to 44. An 88-year-old woman passed away in Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, the Health Ministry…
Some 183 Israelis who almost ended up being stranded in Australia and New Zealand due to the coronavirus pandemic arrived back home early on Friday on board a special El…
Four more patients passed away overnight Thursday and early Friday to the coronavirus, bringing the total deaths in Israel to 37. A 71-year-old man died of the coronavirus on Friday…
The closure that was placed on Bnei Brak Friday morning is likely to be replicated in other cities, government sources said, as hundreds of IDF soldiers and police placed barricades…
Israelis were told on Wednesday night by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that henceforth they would have to wear masks when venturing outside their homes, but twenty-four hours later police were…
The Likud and Blue and White Parties were nearing a coalition agreement that could be finalized as early as Thursday night, according to The Jerusalem Post. Sources in the talks…
The head of Hamas in Gaza has threatened Israel, saying that if more ventilators for coronavirus patients are not brought into the Palestinian enclave then they will “take them by…
Israel recorded its thirty-fourth fatality in the coronavirus pandemic, the eighth to pass away on Thursday. The victim was a 98-year-old woman who passed away at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem…
The IDF’s 98th Division was preparing on Thursday to deploy in Bnei Brak to help provide food, medicine and other services to residents, as well as carry out an evacuation…