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Passengers wearing full protective suits and masks to protect against the COVID-19 pandemic push their luggage trolleys at the departures area at Ben Gurion Airport on January 19, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP)
Government to vote on immediately suspending all passenger flights for two weeks
By TOI staff
Airport to close for 14 days, pending cabinet approval Sunday, as Israel fears import of virus mutations
Passengers wearing full protective suits and masks to protect against the COVID-19 pandemic push their luggage trolleys at the departures area at Ben Gurion Airport on January 19, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP)
January 23, 2021, 11:46 pm
Government to vote on immediately suspending all passenger flights for two weeks
Airport to close for 14 days, pending cabinet approval Sunday, as Israel fears import of virus mutations
By TOI staff
An almost empty Ben Gurion International Airport, on January 18, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)
January 23, 2021, 9:20 pm
Netanyahu seeks to suspend flights amid fears over virus variants
PM to hold talks on halting travel for tourism purposes; measure may take effect in next 24 hours
By TOI staff
Police at a temporary roadblock in Jerusalem during a 3rd nationwide lockdown, in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, on January 19, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 23, 2021, 9:07 am
Israel expected to raise COVID fines, place fresh limits on air travel
TV report: Travelers to country will need negative test before flying; HMOs set to begin vaccinating 16-18-year-olds, so that matriculation exams can go ahead
By TOI staff
People wear protective face masks due to the coronavirus outbreak as they walk outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, December 17, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
January 21, 2021, 4:22 pm
Netanyahu backs reopening art, culture events in two weeks
PM meets with representatives of battered industries, proposes that those vaccinated against coronavirus would be permitted to attend performances
By TOI staff
Home Front Command soldiers and police at the Dan Panorama Hotel, Jerusalem, used as a quarantine facility, on May 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 21, 2021, 2:58 pm
Travelers returning from Dubai turn violent at Jerusalem quarantine hotel
In video, one man breaks a partition while another overturns a table; men said incensed when no officials were present to potentially grant exemption from hotel isolation
By TOI staff
A woman receives her second Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from an army medic, left, at a vaccination center set up on a mall parking lot in Givataim, central Israel, during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the virus, January 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
January 21, 2021, 10:24 am
For 1st time since October, Israel’s transmission rate shows outbreak slowing
As trend starts reversing, deputy health minister says that while infections are now waning, the decline is blunted by the fast-spreading British mutation of the virus
By TOI staff
Police enforce a lockdown at a temporary checkpoint at the entrance to the ultra-Orthodox town of Elad on January 18, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
January 20, 2021, 6:40 pm
Blue and White accuses Likud of blocking effort to boost COVID enforcement
Claiming Netanyahu’s faction is thwarting law to increase fines for rule violators, Gantz’s party decides to hold up committee required to authorize lockdown extension
By TOI staff
An Israeli health worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech coronavirus vaccine at Netanya stadium on January 20, 2021, in the coastal city of Netanya. (Jack Guez/AFP)
January 20, 2021, 5:16 pm
Pfizer vaccine appears effective against British virus variant — study
Research comes as spread of more transmissible UK strain raises global concerns, with top Israeli health official saying it now accounts for 30%-40% of new cases in country
By TOI staff
Illustrative: People attend a ceremony at the main synagogue of Brussels, June 4, 2008. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP)
January 20, 2021, 4:22 pm
Belgium Jews join religious faiths’ demand to allow more worshipers at services
In letter to interior minister, representatives say current limit of 15 people, applied due to coronavirus, is restrictive, propose one person per 10 square meters as rule
By AP
View of the closed-down stores in the Givatayim Mall during a nationwide lockdown, January 18, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 19, 2021, 8:13 pm
Government extends lockdown until January 31 amid soaring virus rates
Ministers also approve new regulations requiring all those entering the country to present a recent negative virus test or face a fine
By TOI staff
Police at a temporary roadblock in Jerusalem during a 3rd nationwide lockdown, in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, on January 19, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 19, 2021, 5:53 pm
Amid sky-high infections, Netanyahu pushes ministers to extend lockdown
Blue and White said prepared to back move, but only up to 10 days and only if enforcement is upped where closure is being violated; 30%-40% of cases blamed on British variant
By TOI staff
Travelers walk through the nearly empty JetBlue terminal at Logan Airport, Friday Nov. 20, 2020, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
January 19, 2021, 3:28 am
Trump orders lifting some COVID travel restrictions, Biden team says nope
Outgoing president says entry curbs from much of Europe and Brazil to be lifted January 26, but spokesperson for president-elect says plans are actually to tighten restrictions
By AFP
A medical worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine injection, at a vaccination center in Jerusalem, on January 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 18, 2021, 10:17 am
In highest rate in months, 9.1% of virus tests return positive
Serious cases decline for second day in a row; cabinet to meet Tuesday on extending lockdown, health minister will suggest restricting air travel
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
People walk in downtown Jerusalem on January 17, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 17, 2021, 11:28 pm
As Israeli death toll tops 4,000, ministers set to extend lockdown for 3rd week
Health experts reported to tell cabinet infections rates will stay high even after another week of lockdown; cabinet orders all arrivals from UAE into quarantine hotels
By TOI staff
Medical workers test people at a drive-through site to collect samples for coronavirus testing in the northern city of Safed on January 4, 2021 (David Cohen/Flash90)
January 17, 2021, 5:39 pm
Israelis to be exempted from quarantine a week after getting 2nd vaccine dose
Virus czar says authorities are finalizing distribution of ‘green passports’ to those deemed immune from coronavirus
By TOI staff
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