Published: 10 March 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Blanket quarantine for all returning Israelis ‘a foregone conclusion’ – expert (Times of Israel)
As government mulls requiring all returning citizens to isolate for 14 days, some say the measure is unavoidable necessity to prevent the spread of coronavirus
Birthright stops all trips to Israel over coronavirus outbreak (Haaretz)
Cancellations will affect 500 participants who had signed up for trips from the United States, Germany, and the former Soviet bloc countries as the world grapples with the coronavirus
The coronavirus panic has shaken up Israel (Jerusalem Post)
HERB KEINON: What the suicide bus bombings of the Second Intifada could not do in five years, what tens of thousands of rockets from Gaza failed to do in a decade, what the US killing of Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani couldn’t do in January, the novel coronavirus has managed to do in less than a week: fundamentally disrupt Israel’s daily life.
Flights cancelled, international conferences postponed, annual Purim parades scratched, sporting events held without spectators, tens of thousands of people holed up in their homes – welcome to Israel, circa March 2020.
Wary of Trump, Netanyahu overrules health ministry on US coronavirus quarantine (Haaretz)
Shocking those aware of officials' opinion on coronavirus, PM pulls back on requiring Israelis returning from US to self-quarantine, and political considerations may have had a role
Health Ministry in Gaza calls on Palestinians to avoid travel abroad over virus (Times of Israel)
Education Ministry cancels classes for the coming five days as infection spreads globally; WHO official says territory prepared to handle small number of cases
Number of Israeli coronavirus cases jumps by 14, raising total to 39 (Times of Israel)
Seven of the new patients returned from European countries, 6 came into contact with sick individuals in Israel; medic among newly diagnosed, though cause of his infection is unknown
Israeli rabbi: Coronavirus outbreak is divine punishment for gay pride parades (Times of Israel)
Meir Mazuz falsely claims Arab states spared, because they ‘don’t have this evil inclination’; modern Orthodox group blasts him for ‘inciting against the LGBT community’
Photo: Election monitors wearing protective gear count Monday’s election votes cast by Israelis in home quarantine (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)
