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Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis helps out the Las Olas Chabad Jewish Center in distributing free masks to Florida residents in need. Credit: Las Olas Chabad Jewish Center.

Chabad center in Southeast Florida distributes 50,000-plus masks streetside

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A Chabad center in Florida conducted a free drive-through mask distribution and handed out more than 50,000 masks to help people stay safe during the coronavirus pandemic. Las Olas Chabad Jewish Center in Fort Lauderdale,...
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...
Surgical face mask. Credit: Alex Chirkin via Wikimedia Commons.

Israeli officials make wearing masks in public mandatory

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The Israeli government announced on Tuesday a new regulation requiring people to wear masks in public in order to help stop the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israelis last...
The empty Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv on April 4, 2020. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Number of coronavirus cases in Israel exceeds 8,000 as death toll continues to rise

Israel’s COVID-19 death toll stands at 47, with 8,018 confirmed cases of infection, according to Israel’s Health Ministry. Of the confirmed cases, 7,195 patients are listed as being in mild condition, 173 in moderate...
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...
A woman wears face mask to protect herself against the coronavirus (COVID-19) as she attends a bar mitzvah, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on March 19, 2020. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90.

Report: Israel may require public to wear masks when leaving home

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As Israel suffered its 16th death from the coronavirus on Monday evening with 4,695 people infected, the Health Ministry is considering to require the public to where surgical masks when going outside. Until now, the...
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...
Workers prepare matzah, traditional unleavened bread eaten during the eight-day Jewish holiday of Passover, at the Aviv matzah plant in Bnei Brak on April 14, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Major Orthodox groups urge Jews to limit Passover prep to just the ‘essentials’

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Leaders of six major Orthodox organizations released a joint statement on Monday asking Jews to limit preparations for Passover to only essentials as a further measure against the health threat presented by the coronavirus...
Israeli Interior Security Minister Gilad Erdan gives a statement to the press at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on Feb. 6, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Total lockdown ‘inevitable,’ says Israel’s Public Security Minister

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In a conference call Tuesday night with the heads of the country’s security branches, Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan instructed the police and the rest of Israel’s domestic security apparatus to make preparations...
Workers disinfect Bar Kol Supermarket in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat as part of measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, March 16, 2020. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Israel tells people not to leave home unless ‘absolutely necessary’

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The Israeli Health Ministry announced new guidelines on Tuesday to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, including a call for all to stay at home unless it is “absolutely necessary” to go out to...