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Magen David Adom workers evacuate a patient outside the coronavirus (COVID-19) unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on April 20, 2020. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Israel’s coronavirus death toll rises to 181, total number of cases at 13,883

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Israel’s COVID-19 death toll rose to 181 on Tuesday, after four more people succumbed to the disease overnight Monday and on Tuesday morning. Among the four fatalities was Aharon Turchin, a 48-year-old father of 14...
People walk on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on April 19, 2020. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Israeli Cabinet eases coronavirus restrictions, allowing some businesses to reopen

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Israel on Sunday began easing some of the restrictions imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, making allowances for prayer quorums and allowing many businesses to reopen. The new measures were a source...
People walking in Jerusalem on April 16, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Israel’s coronavirus death toll rises to 140; Passover curfew lifted

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Israel awoke on Thursday to the lifting of a nationwide curfew imposed for the end of the Passover holiday, while the government is reportedly considering additional easing of general lockdown directives. The national coronavirus death...
Israeli soldiers in the Home Front Command Unit give out food packages to elderly people in Jerusalem obliged to stay home due to the coronavirus pandemic, April 7, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Israeli coronavirus cases near 12,000; death toll reaches 118

As of Tuesday morning, 11,868 Israelis have tested positive for coronavirus, which has so far killed 118 people in the country. According to the country’s Health Ministry, 181 patients are currently listed in serious...
Technicians carry out a diagnostic test for coronavirus in a lab at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel, on March 30, 2020. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.

Israel inks deal with Chinese firm to enable 10,000 daily coronavirus tests

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Israel has signed a NIS 90 million ($25 million) deal with Chinese firm BGI to procure equipment that will allow it to increase its daily coronavirus testing capacity to at least 10,000, the country’s...
Muslims pray in front of the Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, marking then end of the month of Ramadan, June 5, 2019. Photo by Sliman Khader/Flash90.

Prospect of coronavirus flare-up during Ramadan sparks health concerns

Israeli officials on Tuesday expressed concern that the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide will mark starting on April 24, will cause a flare-up of coronavirus (COVID-19) infections. Israeli...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yaakov Litzman hold a video conference at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem with European leaders to discuss governments' response to the coronavirus pandemic, on March 9, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Netanyahu, senior officials quarantined after Israel’s health minister tests positive for coronavirus

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mossad intelligence agency chief Yossi Cohen, National Security Council head Meir Ben-Shabbat, Health Ministry director general Moshe Bar Siman-Tov, head of Public Health Services Sigal Sadetsky and head of...
Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman arrives at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem for a video conference with European leaders in order to discuss the COVID-19 crisis, on March 9, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman tests positive for coronavirus

Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman and his wife, Chava, have been diagnosed with coronavirus and will go into quarantine, the country’s Health Ministry confirmed on Thursday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been informed that...
Medical teams at work at the new biological emergency unit dedicated to COVID-19 at Jerusalem's Shaarei Zedek Medical Center on March 31, 2020. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Israel sees 18th coronavirus fatality; total cases approach 5,000

The number of coronavirus fatalities in Israel rose to 18 on Tuesday, after two female patients, both of whom suffered from prior medical issues, succumbed to the illness. According to a Sheba Medical Center spokesman,...
A health-care worker handes coronavirus test samples at Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in Jerusalem on March 26, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

As death toll rises, Israel braces for ‘5,000 patients on ventilators’

As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Israel continues to rise, Israeli health workers are saying that the worst may have yet to come. As of Monday, there were 4,347 confirmed cases of...