With a total of 5,116 fatalities, US has more victims than China, but still fewer than Italy and Spain; president says states should decide for themselves on stay-at-home orders

Weizmann Institute researchers develop epidemiological model that predicts cyclical lockdown would more slowly eradicate virus, but keep key economical sectors functioning

Governor DeSantis says he at first didn't allow Zaandam and Rotterdam ships -- where 4 people have died of COVID-19 -- into port because he thought there were no US citizens aboard

Health Ministry chiefs, Mossad boss, national security adviser, all handing response to pandemic, enter isolation along with PM, who only just emerged; IDF head already quarantined

Yaakov Litzman, 71, doing well, ministry official says, speculates minister likely caught bug from his ultra-Orthodox community and not lawmakers

Terror group using its organizational might to battle COVID-19, disinfecting roads and setting up treatment centers, but opponents say its ties to Iran were what let coronavirus in

Innovation Authority to disburse funding to Israeli firms hit by the crisis, including NIS 50 million to companies combating the virus outbreak

Marsalis, father of famed performer sons Wynton and Branford, was the patriarch of celebrated jazz dynasty; son says death resulted from complications of COVID-19 infection

New production line, set up 'within days,' delivers 30 portable breathing machines to Health Ministry to address shortage amid coronavirus pandemic

Actress describes harrowing experience amid giving birth amid coronavirus outbreak that also took life of close friend and collaborator Adam Schlesinger