Netanyahu: Stay at home -- this isn't a request; this is an order, and it will be enforced

Netanyahu continues: “The government will approve tonight emergency regulations to limit movement. You are ordered to stay at home… This isn’t a request, this isn’t a recommendation, but a binding requirement that will be enforced. The purpose of these instructions is to ensure as few people will be infected and will infect [others].”

Orders will take effect as soon they’re approved, he says. They will be in effect at first for seven days and are already drawn up, he adds.

“This is a step unlike any since the founding of the State of Israel,” Netanyahu says, adding that Israel has never faced anything like the coronavirus.