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Health Ministry says 8,018 Israelis have been diagnosed with the virus, 48 succumb to COVID-19 disease. Magen David Adom paramedic attacked upon entering Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood to administer a coronavirus test. 

A sacred New York tradition has helped a dispirited author cope with his city being hit.

Among other cargo, the Israir plane will carry home some two million protective masks. Israir expected to perform additional similar flights to the Far East.

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett demands IDF takeover coronavirus crisis management in full. "We’re fighting a tough biological war," he says.

Synagogue in haredi community of Rechasim was holding public prayers in violation of Health Ministry orders.

Residents of the city, which now leads Israel in the number of corona cases, insist that the majority of residents are now following Health Ministry orders. Any other year, they say, the streets would be packed ahead of Passover. Now, they are empty.

Israel Hayom’s US correspondent and his family fought the coronavirus in New York, then decided to leave the city they love for the mountains of Pennsylvania.

PM, other top officials in self-isolation after Health Minister Yakov Litzman tests positive for novel coronavirus.

Some 200,000 residents of haredi city told they cannot leave city, must comply with shelter-at-home ordinances as country ramps up efforts to slow coronavirus infection rate. City is one of the poorest, most dense in Israel.