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People who flew back to Israel seen arriving at the Dan Panorama Hotel used as a quarantine facility, on December 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 24, 2021, 12:10 pm
Ministers reinstate compulsory hotel quarantine for arrivals from abroad
Measure dependent on approval by Knesset committee, but panel chair says no meeting planned, sets up talks on matter with health minister
By Stuart Winer
The Daily Briefing
February 18, 2021, 4:34 pm
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By TOI staff
Illustrative: The nearly-empty arrivals hall at Ben Gurion International Airport, on April 12, 2020. (Flash90)
February 10, 2021, 9:24 am
Stuck abroad with airport shut, flummoxed Israelis scramble for a way back home
Travelers who left for what they thought was a short trip are now winging it and searching for answers on how they can get to Israel, angry at the government for abandoning them
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli soldiers at the empty Upper Galilee Mall, in Hatzor Haglilit, January 10, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)
February 2, 2021, 12:41 pm
IDF cancels leave for most soldiers as infection rates on bases soar
Military says rule will not apply to open bases, units with no virus cases or units with 85% vaccination
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
Illustrative -- A Magen David Adom ambulance enters Tel Aviv’s Dan Panorama hotel which was turned into quarantine facility in Tel Aviv, on March 26, 2020 (Gili Yaari /Flash90)
January 14, 2021, 12:19 pm
Health Ministry worker said to send his ex to quarantine, unnecessarily, 4 times
External contractor allegedly abused his power to falsely inform woman that she’d been in contact with COVID-19 patients
By TOI staff
Passengers who arrived on a flight from England arrive at the Dan Panorama Hotel in Jerusalem, used as a quarantine facility, on December 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 30, 2020, 3:03 pm
Israel officially scraps hotel quarantine requirement for returning travelers
Israelis may now self-isolate at home if tested for COVID-19 at airport; Health Ministry says 14 infected people were on flight from Dubai
By TOI staff
A technician collects nasal swab samples for COVID-19 at the coronavirus lab, at Ben-Gurion International Airport on December 14, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
December 29, 2020, 4:51 pm
In U-turn, government cancels forced hotel quarantine for arrivals from abroad
Requirement for travelers to spend 2 weeks in state facilities had faced public criticism, was selectively enforced, and prompted clashes at isolation centers
By TOI staff
Dozens of Israelis who had returned from abroad attempt to break out of a forced quarantine in the Leonardo hotel in Jerusalem, December 28, 2020. (Screen Capture: Channel12)
December 28, 2020, 10:04 pm
Forced hotel quarantine said likely to be nixed, as dozens try to break out
Israelis who had returned from abroad clash with guards at Jerusalem IDF-run facility; Gantz, deputy health minister say policy should be rethought
By TOI staff
A resident of the Dan Panorama hotel in Jerusalem, which is being run by the military as a quarantine facility, protesting conditions, December 21, 2020 (screen shot)
December 22, 2020, 7:14 pm
Occupants of Jerusalem COVID hotel fear it’s a breeding ground for UK strain
‘Come for quarantine, leave with coronavirus’: Residents decry dire hygiene standards, chaotic mismanagement of facility, say army utterly unequipped to deal with influx
By Nathan Jeffay
Israeli travelers coming from the United Kingdom board a bus at Ben Gurion Airport to take them to a state-run quarantine hotel in Jerusalem, December 20, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)
December 20, 2020, 7:18 pm
Dozens of UK arrivals refuse forced quarantine at Jerusalem hotel, some fly back
Passenger says travelers weren’t alerted to new mandate until just before flight, were told it wasn’t certain; after landing, ‘they told us to get on buses but didn’t say where to’
By Raoul Wootliff and TOI staff
An EasyJet flight seen taking off from Ben Gurion International Airport, on March 24, 2018. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
December 20, 2020, 4:45 pm
Entry banned to foreigners from UK; returning Israelis sent to quarantine hotels
130 arrivals on 2 flights taken to hotels for isolation, but 30 refuse to go; decision also affects South Africa, Denmark arrivals, as COVID-19 mutations found in all 3 countries
By TOI staff
Travelers at the departure hall at Ben Gurion Airport on December 14, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
December 20, 2020, 1:03 pm
Netanyahu wants Israel shut to all int’l flights, as new COVID-19 strain hits UK
Ministers meet on more infectious COVID-19 mutation found in Britain, mull barring all overseas flights; PM says no indication vaccine would not work against new strain
By TOI staff and Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives a coronavirus vaccine, from his personal physician Dr. Tzvi Berkovitz, at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, on December 19, 2020, becoming the first Israeli to get the vaccine. (Amir Cohen/Pool/AFP)
December 19, 2020, 9:53 pm
Netanyahu is 1st Israeli to get COVID vaccine: ‘Start of return to normal life’
‘One small injection for a man, one giant leap for the health of us all,’ PM says after getting the Pfizer shot; adds if public cooperates, Israel could be first to end pandemic
By TOI staff
Rafi Revach (left) and Nissim Arush, two Israelis from Dimona visiting the Dubai Mall, December 9, 2020 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)
December 18, 2020, 10:12 pm
All returning travelers will have to quarantine, as Israel closes Dubai loophole
Thousands have flocked to UAE since peace deal, flying with no virus restrictions; move taking effect December 26 also applies to two other green countries, Seychelles and Rwanda
By TOI staff
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