Ministry highlights 'unusual' increase over past 2 days; 3 deaths take toll to 284; 37 patients in serious condition, 36 of them on ventilators; cases mount in education system

Singer-songwriter Daniel Salomon and actor Lior Ashkenazi release 'Love is distancing,' a musical version of Netanyahu's address to the nation at height of crisis

Cases mount in reopened education system despite downward national trend; children at school, kindergarten in Or Yehuda sent into isolation after siblings test positive

Universities, colleges said unhappy announcement made on eve of Shavuot holiday, leaving little time to prepare; schools, kindergartens to reopen in previously virus-stricken areas

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

Putin says with 9,000 daily infections, his country has passed the peak of the coronavirus pandemic and Victory Day parade postponed from May can go ahead

Israeli leader shares warm ties with the South American leader, who has shrugged at the danger of the pandemic as his country's cases and deaths have skyrocketed

Israelis are waiting tables again, but also waiting for a second wave of the virus; meanwhile, the army, settlers and others are waiting to see how annexing the West Bank works out

As downward trend in nationwide infections continues, cases mount in reopened education system; Bat Yam sisters' diagnosis also sends dozens into quarantine

As a 19-year-old, Emilio DiPalma fought on the front lines in the war before finding himself watching over Hitler's top officers as they were brought to justice