Iberia, Alitalia halt trips to Tel Aviv after new entry restrictions take effect; Health Ministry says tourists from Italy, France diagnosed after returning home

After public anger over downing of passenger plane, deadly crackdown on protests, analyst says IRGC's efforts to combat virus 'as much political theater as a public health effort'

Florida reports first 2 deaths from COVID-19 on East Coast of US as measures to stem outbreak of virus spread to the West

How an Israeli family copes with confinement: Scared delivery drivers, visits from friends, calls from the health authorities and a fear of returning to the outside world

Pro-Israel lobby group sends notice to congressional offices and all 18,000 who were at annual confab, including Pompeo, Pence, Bloomberg, other lawmakers

In Mecca, Islam's holiest site empty after reopening following disinfection; in Iraq, for first time since 2003 no one delivered the sermon of top Shiite cleric

'I just found out I am infected,' writes Rabbi Reuven Fink, whose New Rochelle congregation is quarantined. 'I am doing reasonably well. Crisis is bringing out the best in people'

Doctors and nurses are also lifting spirits with light-hearted dance performances that have spread massively on social media

Official says government blocking move thus far over fears it could harm economic, political ties with United States; National Security Council to take over coronavirus decisions

Coronavirus edges into more US states, pops up in at least four new countries, breaches the halls of the Vatican