Israel

Israel tightens emergency lockdown regulations — and Netanyahu vows they’ll be enforced

“You are ordered to stay at home,” the prime minister said as the number of coronavirus cases rose to 573. “This isn’t a request, this isn’t a recommendation.”

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz speaks during a demonstration held by Israeli opposition parties outside the Tel Aviv Museum, May 25, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz and Netanyahu break off talks of a unity government that would include both of them

“Contact with the Likud negotiating team has been terminated this evening,” Gantz’s Blue and White said in a statement.

Coronavirus puts immigration of some 250 Ethiopian Jews to Israel on hold

Most of the potential immigrants are said to have sold their possessions and given up their housing because they thought they were leaving this week.

Jerusalem protest of Knesset shutdown leads to 5 arrests

Arab-Israeli parties just recommended Benny Gantz to be prime minister. Here’s why that’s historic.

Israeli parliament shut down in move critics call a breach of democracy

‘We’re not scared’: Some haredi Orthodox Jews in Israel are ignoring coronavirus social distancing rules

I’m inside the coronavirus outbreak ward at Hadassah Hospital. Here’s my story.

1,000 Israelis stranded in Peru with closure of border due to coronavirus

Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir posts photo of Tel Aviv taken from space

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