Coronavirus Outbreak

The last time that I felt something like this was in 2003, when my doctor advised me to get an abortion because of a virus that had been detected in my blood tests.

It doesn’t matter who creates culture or art, the money always trickles from the top down, from the higher echelons to the lower rungs of society.

The newly opened space gives us the opportunity to experience this cosmopolitan city in its purest sense.

Series of restrictions on public life takes effect Friday, government to debate additional measures next week. Opposition blasts ministers for "confusing public" and "causing unnecessary panic."

In Western countries, the ratio is one researcher per several thousand residents, while in Israel the ratio is one single researcher per 300,000 residents.

Health Ministry reports 1,900 new coronavirus infections over the span of 24 hours, pushing Israel closer to the 2,000 daily-case benchmark Health Minister Yuli Edelstein has set as a trigger for a nationwide lockdown.

Every day, the real "corona cabinet" conducts a situational analysis. Unlike the ministerial committee of the same name, this cabinet is a WhatsApp group with 172 members, including ministers, ministry directors, senior clerks, senior IDF officers and others who, in essence, are the ones managing the crisis on a daily basis.

If we 'don't do anything, reality will impose lockdown' on Israelis, Minister Yuli Edelstein says, warning petty politics could derail meaningful policy.

There were 22,417 active corona cases in Israel as of Wednesday morning, with 181 patients listed in serious condition. Health Ministry asks former head of IDF Planning Directorate to serve as “corona czar.”

Professor Yaakov Nachmias publishes results of laboratory research showing that fenofibrate keeps virus from depositing lipids in lungs, which is what makes COVID so dangerous. His findings have not yet been tested on patients.