"I am not intervening in the US election," PM Netanyahu replies when asked on Army Radio about US Senator Bernie Sanders' personal attack on him on Tuesday.

The six months following the March 2 election will be crucial to maximizing the opportunity presented by the Trump peace plan and the leaders of Likud and Blue and White must unite to implement it. Failing to do so will harm Israel.

"We cannot be disconnected from the history of anti-Semitism, and we should be very careful of hate speech," says Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, who recognized that "there is a new form of anti-Semitism, which is anti-Zionism."

"As strong supporters of the US-Israel relationship and AIPAC's role in advancing it, we reject Senator Bernie Sanders' outrageous comment accusing AIPAC of fostering bigotry," say Reform, Conservative and Orthodox rabbis.

Expanding its precautionary steps in combating the coronavirus, the ministry says it is also now urging the public "to reconsider the necessity of flights abroad in general, beyond the required isolation upon return from specific countries."