Published: 24 September 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Ministers said to agree on full lockdown, more severe than Israel’s first (Times of Israel)
Reports: Measure will last until October 10; demonstrations limited to 1km from home; synagogues to shutter except for limited prayers on Yom Kippur; cabinet convenes to okay plan
Israeli coronavirus patients wait hours in ambulances as hospitals fill up (Haaretz)
First responder teams are sent to hospitals only to be turned away once they arrive, or are blocked from entering by security guards
Netanyahu calls to curb protests against him under coronavirus restrictions (Haaretz)
As coronavirus cabinet mulls intensifying lockdown restrictions, protests and prayer services become a central point of contention
Netanyahu pits protests against prayers; compromise won’t come from him (Haaretz)
RAVIT HECHT: The tension between democracy and religion is imprinted in Israel's DNA – and the prime minister has chosen to mine political capital from it
Israel’s burial societies gird for wave of coronavirus deaths (Times of Israel)
Refrigerated shipping container that can hold hundreds of bodies prepared in Haifa as epidemiologists warn number of seriously ill expected to double within three weeks
Chief Rabbis split on closing synagogues for Yom Kippur (Jerusalem Post)
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Lau says close synagogues, Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef says keep them open with reduced numbers
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Israeli virus cases per capita overtake US, deaths surpass global average (Times of Israel)
Jewish state has 2,115.1 cases per 100,000 people compared to America’s 2,079.9, according to latest Johns Hopkins data
Photo: The empty Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, on September 20 amid the second coronavirus lockdown (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
