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Large tankers loading at Kharg Island Terminal, offshore in the Persian Gulf. As of 2012, the terminal has handled about 98 percent of Iran’s crude exports. Credit: National Iranian Oil Company via Wikimedia Commons.

Report: US sanctions have strangled at least one-fourth of Iranian oil rigs

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U.S. sanctions have caused at least one-quarter of Iran’s oil rigs to be inactive, according to a Reuters report published on Tuesday. “At least 40 of about 160 oil rigs in Iran remain idle or under repair,” reported...
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi at a graduation ceremony of naval officers of the Israel Navy in Haifa Naval Base, northern Israel on March 4, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

IDF calls up dozens of reservists to plan coronavirus information campaign

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With more than 2,200 active-duty Israeli soldiers under quarantine for COVID-19, the Israel Defense Forces has decided to call up dozens of reservists to help the Home Front Command deal with the challenges the...

A Yiddish rhyme advises how to avoid getting coronavirus (with audio)

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מע קען זיך צוהערן צו אַנדערע אַרטיקלען פֿונעם פֿאָרווערטס פֿאָרגעלייענט דורך שׂרה־רחל שעכטער, ווי אויך אַנדערע פֿאָרווערטס־רעקאָרדירונגען, דורכן קוועטשן דאָ. די נײַע וועלט־מגפֿה, און די מיטלען זיך צו באַוואָרענען פֿאַר איר, זענען בפֿירוש ערנסטע ענינים, בפֿרט...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a video conference with European leaders to discuss international cooperation in dealing with the coronavirus, at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on March 9, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

A tale of two Israeli leaders

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As coronavirus dominates headlines all over the world, Israel is emerging as a leader in the global fight to contain the pandemic, quickly enacting strict quarantine measures and border closures to limit the spread...
Workers wearing protective suits disinfect a bus in Tel Aviv as a preventive measure amid fears over the spread of coronavirus, on March 9, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Number of coronavirus cases in Israel hits 55

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Israel’s Health Ministry confirmed five new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 55. Four of the new patients were infected through close contact with people confirmed...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participates in a video conference at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem with European leaders to discuss challenges and cooperation between countries in dealing with the coronavirus, March 9, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel issues mandatory 14-day quarantine for all arrivals, including citizens

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Israel made the unprecedented move to require all incoming arrivals, including Israeli citizens, to enter a mandatory 14-day quarantine as a result of the coronavirus. “After a day of complex discussions, we made a decision:...
March of the Living participants. Photo by Yossi Zeliger.

March of the Living program in Poland postponed due to coronavirus

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March of the Living, the largest annual international Holocaust-education program that takes groups to the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and then Israel, will not take place in this month because of concerns related...
Tourists wear face masks for fear of the coronavirus while touring the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on March 5, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Israel reports 39 cases of coronavirus, including first of unknown origin

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Thirteen new cases of coronavirus were reported by Israel’s Health Ministry on Sunday, bringing the total number of Israelis infected with COVID-19 to 39. Of the new cases, seven recently returned from Europe, and six...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yaakov Litzman hold a press conference on COVID-19 at the Health Ministry in Jerusalem, on March 4, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Netanyahu lays out five-point plan to combat ‘worst pandemic in 100 years’

Eight more Israelis contracted SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) over the weekend, bringing the total number to 25, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared it the worst pandemic in 100 years. Israel’s Health Ministry reported that patients...
Rabbi Shimon Freundlich has stayed behind in Beijing, China, though his family evacuated to safety overseas. While much of the expatriate Jewish community has left China, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries are still hard at work, helping local residents. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

As global health crisis worsens, Chabad of China asks for help

As the coronavirus, or COVID-19, continues its worrisome spread around the globe with more than 80 affected countries and territories, China, where the virus originated in late December, has been deeply impacted with more...