Published: 27 October 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Israel seeks to give police unrestricted access to Covid contact tracing data (Haaretz)
Proposed legislation would allow information on patients' movement and contacts, as collected by the Health Ministry and army, and possibly the Shin Bet security service, to be used for criminal investigations
Human trials for Israeli coronavirus vaccine to begin November 1 (Times of Israel)
Institute for Biological Research to carry out testing in three stages: first on 80 people, then 960 and finally on 30,000 volunteers before it will be cleared for full use
Covid-19 brings East Jerusalem Palestinians and Israeli authorities closer; will it last? (Haaretz)
The army’s Home Front Command has worked with the community to curb the spread of the virus in most Palestinian neighbourhoods, but not on the other side of the separation barrier
Photo: Pedestrians check their phones in Tel Aviv, October 25 (Tomer Appelbaum)
