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A health official uses a thermometer to screen people in front of Kibuli Muslim Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, May 16, 2026. (Hajarah Nalwadda/AP)
June 23, 2026, 5:03 pm
Ebola suspicion ruled out, as expert says ‘very low’ chance current strain will reach Israel
However, Health Ministry is taking precautions as there are no vaccines yet for Bundibugyo virus; UN health agency reports 896 confirmed cases and 232 suspected deaths globally
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative: A laboratory technician at bioMérieux's Salt Lake City, Utah, manufacturing facility on June 11, 2026, prepares a sample of a diagnostic test that detects the Ebola Bundibugyo strain responsible for recent outbreaks in Central and East Africa. (Niki Chan Wylie/AP Content Services for bioMérieux)
June 21, 2026, 4:49 pm
Second person hospitalized in Israel for possible Ebola after trip to DR Congo
Health Ministry says man not confirmed to have contracted deadly disease, has been taken to Sheba Medical Center for testing; results expected in coming days
By Diana Bletter and ToI Staff
Health workers attend to an Ebola patient at the Rwampara treatment Center in Ituri, Congo, June 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
June 21, 2026, 1:50 am
Suspected Ebola patient being treated at Haifa hospital after recent trip to DRC
Health Ministry says patient in isolation with contact tracing underway, but final test results not expected before Monday; if confirmed, it would be 1st-ever Ebola case in Israel
By ToI Staff, Diana Bletter and AP
A health official uses a thermometer to screen people in front of Kibuli Muslim Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, May 16, 2026. (Hajarah Nalwadda/AP)
May 17, 2026, 8:48 am
WHO declares Ebola outbreak in Congo, Uganda a global health emergency
UN health agency reports 80 suspected deaths, warns outbreak could spread to neighboring countries; there are no approved virus-specific therapeutics or vaccines for this strain
By Disha Mishra and Akanksha Khushi
The founder of private military company Blackwater, Erik Prince, speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on February 22, 2025. (Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP)
February 11, 2026, 11:13 am
Israeli advisers said to have helped train Congo forces to retake city
Blackwater founder Erik Prince sent contractors to fight for Uvira, on Burundi border, amid war between DRC and Rwanda-backed rebels
By Jessica Donati and Clement Bonnerot
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on October 02, 2025 shows the two candidates to become the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): Congolese diplomat, development economist, and specialist international relations specialist, Firmin Edouard Matoko (L) posing during a photo session in Paris, on September 26, 2025 and Khaled El-Enany, former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt and candidate to become the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) poses during a photo session in Paris on October 1, 2025. An Egyptian ex-minister is the favourite to become head of the UN's culture agency, but his Congolese rival says bets are still off before a key decision next week. (Joël SAGET and Julien DE ROSA / AFP)
October 6, 2025, 12:02 pm
UNESCO to choose new leader amid controversies over anti-Israel bias claims
Candidates are Egyptian Khaled el-Enany, who wants to be agency’s first Arab leader, and Congolese Firmin Matoko, who wants to depart from political tensions after US pullout
By AP
Moti Kahana at the Siret border crossing between Romania and Ukraine. (JTA)
July 11, 2025, 4:13 pm
How a US mission to Congo to release prisoners, aided by an Israeli, unraveled
An Israeli-American, a State department official and a former Green Beret came to Kinshasa to lobby the president to release Americans who took part in an attempted coup
By Jessica Donati
In this undated photo, malnourished children eat nutritious meals at the Africa 3030 compound in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. (Courtesy)
February 21, 2025, 8:23 am
Rebel offensive in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo clouds future for Israeli NGO
Africa 3030’s Israeli American founder Ariel Kedem fears third Congolese civil war, warns the severely malnourished children his group is feeding could die in days if not cared for
By Sue Surkes
American citizen Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, 36, who has been sentenced to death for his involvement in a failed coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Hardy Bope/AFP via Getty Images)
September 17, 2024, 5:29 pm
American Jew faces execution in DR Congo for taking part in foiled coup
Photo of Benjamin Zalman-Polun with failed coup leader Christian Malanga at Tel Aviv ‘spy shop’ prompts conspiracy theories he was secret agent sent to destabilize government
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Screen capture from video on soldiers in Congo, May 19, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 19, 2024, 2:26 pm
Congolese army says it foiled coup during capital shootout; three dead
Gun battle erupts in Kinshasa between armed men in uniform and guards of top politician; military says several foreigners among those arrested
By CHRISTINA MALKIA and Chinedu Asadu
Two Israeli soldiers sit beneath a road sign, with a tank in the background, somewhere in the Sinai Desert, October 8, 1973. (AP Photo/Robert Dear)
September 26, 2023, 2:03 pm
Daily Briefing Sep 26: Yom Kippur prayer leads to furor in TA; 1973 war remembered
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman gives behind-the-scenes look at United Nations trip; religion reporter Canaan Lidor on US President Joe Biden’s off-the-cuff ultra-Zionist plug
By ToI Staff
Democratic Republic of Congo President Félix Tshisekedi, left, meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, September 21, 2023. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
September 22, 2023, 5:17 am
DR Congo will move its embassy to Jerusalem, leader tells Netanyahu at UN sidelines
Israel to open an embassy in Kinshasa, Israeli leader tells President Félix Tshisekedi in New York, 3 years after ties between nations were renewed
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Congolese politician leader Moise Katumbi, speaks during a press conference held at his lawyer's office in Paris, France, June 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Ariane Grosset)
March 31, 2023, 6:09 pm
Bill that would bar Congo’s only Jewish politician from presidency resubmitted
Overseas Jewish leaders decry proposal to require candidates have two Congolese parents, which would disqualify Moise Katumbi from running because his father was a Greek Jew
By David I. Klein
People walk on the road near Kibumba, north of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, as they flee fighting between Congolese forces and M23 rebels in North Kivu, May 24, 2022. Congolese authorities have accused Rwandan forces of supporting armed groups in mineral-rich eastern Congo, where dozens of such groups are active. Rwanda has described allegations of supporting rebels in Congo as baseless. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
September 12, 2022, 10:09 am
Court lifts protection for Congolese refugees, but slams Shaked’s ‘flawed’ decision
Community had been protected for 20 years; state pledges to check each case before deportation, won’t repatriate minors and their families to ‘volatile’ nation
By Sue Surkes and Omer Sharvit
Congelese activists demonstrate outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, calling on the government to disregard the newly elected Congelese president at the time, December 18, 2011. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
July 26, 2022, 12:29 pm
Despite safety concerns, ministries back deporting Congolese migrants — report
Foreign and Interior ministry assessments both find those returned to Democratic Republic of Congo could face deadly dangers; Interior Minister Shaked determined to proceed
By ToI Staff
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