Government also considering expanding international flights; top official says indoor and outdoor gathering size limits could be increased before Passover

Health official says that while there's no conclusive link between vaccine and cases, temporary hold put in place as precaution; Denmark, Norway, Iceland have taken similar steps

Program to begin March 21, allowing unvaccinated to participate in Green Pass activities; COVID czar says no extra restrictions over Passover; nightclubs to reopen

Active cases dips below 30,000 for the first time since September as basic preproduction number continues to drop

Limit on just 3,000 entries a day maintained, however; as infection rates continue to fall, Edelstein sees no need for Passover restrictions; Gallant calls for all schools to open

Large demonstrations planned next week, in last weekend before vote; one group hopes to 'bring the spirit of the protest to the ballot box'

Curfew fails to quell rising infections among Palestinians; health official: 'There's been nothing like this since the beginning of the pandemic'

Health officials attribute reluctance to go back for final dose to wariness over side effects after initial injection, misinformation about vaccines

The US has now spent more on the pandemic than on the military effort in World War II, and has lost more people than US combat deaths of all of the last century's wars

Idit Matot, Ichilov Hospital's director of anesthesia and an adviser to the government on the pandemic, invites colleagues and friends to a theatrical show at her house