Israel

Netanyahu’s criminal trial delayed due to emergency coronavirus measures

The trial was originally scheduled to open on Tuesday in front of a three-judge panel of the Jerusalem District Court.

Jewish Agency sending teen emissaries back to Israel, and to quarantine

The “shinshinim” will spend two weeks in quarantine before joining their families for Passover.

Ideas

The coronavirus could be disastrous for Israeli service workers. Here’s what they told me.

In several tourist-generated businesses in Israel, many workers are in a state of despair about how the coronavirus crisis is wreaking havoc on their livelihoods.

Israel police investigating 21 people suspected of violating isolation orders

We asked rabbis for their spiritual guidance in handling the coronavirus crisis. Here’s what they said.

Israel closes schools and universities due to coronavirus

Israel election update: No coalition in sight

Thousands of Israelis in the US called home as coronavirus restrictions tighten in their homeland

State Department now calls eastern Jerusalem Palestinians ‘Arab residents’ or ‘non-Israelis’

Amid coronavirus cancellations, Republican Jewish Coalition to hold its conference with Trump as a speaker

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