Staff and children at schools in Hadera, Jerusalem and Beersheba are quarantined as cases continue to rise in the education system

As cases jump by several dozen, Edelstein says asymptomatic people to be eligible for testing; top health official says spike not necessarily confined to schools

Jonathan Gootenberg and Omar Abudayyeh are now the only researchers allowed inside the McGovern Institute, working relentlessly on an efficient, inexpensive test kit for COVID-19

Danny Gold, who oversaw Israel's best-known missile defense system, has four teams working on 60-second kits for detecting coronavirus

Presumptive Democratic nominee says President 'stoking deaths' and says many of the US's 100,000 deaths could have been avoided but for Trump's 'lack of attention and ego'

Research published in Nature identifies 8 antibodies that can bind to coronavirus, blocking its spread, with one candidate showing 'particularly strong neutralizing activity'

Immunologist Mordechai Gerlic has started testing soldiers' blood, convinced it’s the best way to keep them safe from virus during missions

But reports say ministry itself is foot-dragging and engaged in 'ego games,' preventing establishment of necessary testing and monitoring system needed to stop fresh outbreak

Health Ministry reports record 11,908 tests Thursday; agreement with BGI to supply material will boost ability to test for virus to some 20,000 per day