Proposal follows calls for isolation period to be shortened to encourage people to keep it, as well as reducing burden on parents of unvaccinated young children

Serious cases stay steady; hospitals warn lack of funding means there may not be enough doctors if outbreak spreads; cabinet set to discuss return of some form of Green Pass system

Nachman Ash insists problem being taken care of, says there is no current plan to enact new restrictions to deal with renewed outbreak

Serious cases climb to 29; over 16,000 vaccine doses administered Wednesday amid race to inoculate children and teens

Health officials reportedly considering return of ‘Green Pass’ system; Interior Minister Shaked warns incoming, outgoing flights could be halted; hospitalization rates remain low

Instead of using new facilities, authorities inexplicably sending passenger samples far off-site for analysis amid delays; ‘It’s the craziest thing,’ says senior doctor

Health Ministry says anyone who tested positive was informed within 48 hours; report says Israel to destroy 800,000 vaccines if no country agrees to buy them

Education Minister accuses Health Ministry of exaggerating latest outbreak to cause hysteria; coronavirus czar says indoor face-covering requirement could return before Sunday

Virus czar Ash warns latest outbreak has spread to Kfar Saba, Ramla, Herzliya and other cities, pleads with public not to travel abroad, especially with unvaccinated children

More than 1,000 people in Binyamina are in quarantine amid a spike in cases linked to the extra-contagious Delta variant