Tag: coronavirus
Ben Gurion Airport Temporarily Closed as New Mutant COVID-19 Spreads
The Israeli government has decided to close Ben Gurion International Airport to all arrivals for a week as part of the effort to combat...
All Travelers Into Israel Must Present a Negative Coronavirus Test
The Economic Affairs Committee on Thursday approve a measure that all passengers entering Israel from abroad would need to present a negative coronavirus test...
Multiple Israeli’s Partially Paralyzed from COVID-19 Vaccine
At least 13 Israelis have suffered mild facial paralysis as a side effect after getting the Pfizer vaccine.According to the Ynet report, doctors estimate...
Shin Bet Receives Extension to Tap Personal Cell Phones
The Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee has voted to extend until January 20, 2021 the authorization given to the Israel Security Service (Shin Bet)...
Israel Seeks to COVID-19 Immunize 1 Million People a Week
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that would push the pace of coronavirus vaccination shots to about one million a week and would have...
Israel Surpasses 1.5 Million Mark In COVID-19 Vaccinations
Israel has successfully vaccinated about 16% of its population with the first of two required inoculations against COVID-19.According to Israel Hayom, about 1.5 million...
Former Defense Minister Takes Low Blow at Bibi
The head of the right-wing Yemina Party and former Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had failed the...
Israel Imposes 3rd Lockdown
Israel’s government has ordered a third national lockdown as COVID-19 infections continued to surge and hospital wards filled with patients.The closure will start this...
Progress Slows on Israel’s COVD-19 Experimental Vaccine
Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) Director-General Prof. Shmuel Shapira has announced that progress regarding its experimental COVID-19 vaccine is going slower than expected.“We...
US COVID-19 Death Toll Surpasses a Quarter of A Million
The 251,000 COVID-19-related death in the US was logged on Wednesday, nearly a year after the world's first known case of the novel coronavirus...
