Local officials demand full return for students in areas where virus is under control, call government proposal 'unrealistic'

On Lag B'Omer, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men try to break into northern Israel tomb and mass event in Mea Shearim in capital apparently goes unnoticed by police

Russia begins easing lockdown rules despite reporting more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases every day for over a week; India reopens rail network despite surge in infections

Sara Itzinger, whose husband Zvi Herschel was virus victim, hailed by MDA paramedic grandson as a 'strong, surviving woman'; couple met in the US after WWII

Announcement comes shortly before Islamic Republic recorded another 48 deaths from the virus, taking its overall toll to 6,733

Proposal reportedly calls for tracking, testing of volunteer travelers from Greece and Cyprus to monitor new infections caused by flying

Dmitry Peskov, key aide to Russian president, treated in hospital as country's infections spike; unclear if he had been recently in contact with Putin

Users' need for communication and information amid the pandemic, along with charitable impulses, 'supercharged' criminal use of phishing emails and fake websites, Check Point warns

No new deaths Tuesday morning from coronavirus, with total at 258; 13 new infections confirmed as COVID-19 continues to recede; 57 still on ventilators

Just 200 people attend famous Mount Meron celebration in the Galilee, normally packed with a quarter million; when a singer praised the 'energy,' people thought he was joking