With over 3,000 medical staff in isolation due to coronavirus, new recruits will be sent straight to the 'front lines"

Moshe Bar Siman-Tov says PCR tests only 70% accurate while talking to head of public health services prior to press conference

While prime minister, family and several close aides tested negative for virus, they've been in isolation for past two days after learning that staff member contracted COVID-19

Education minister rolls out plan, says students will be allowed to graduate despite disruption caused by coronavirus pandemic

Jerusalem hospital says woman suffered from 'severe and complicated' underlying health issues; Wolfson Medical Center says the man also had health problems

Another facility reportedly to be opened in East Jerusalem, as Israel ramps up testing in Arab community

Health Ministry figures show largest rise in new cases yet over a 24-hour period; 98-year-old woman dies from virus; 76 patients on ventilators

Ben-Gurion University team finds that citizens who are already anxious, and those with negative views of Health Ministry, more apprehensive amid COVID-19 pandemic

Lawmakers oppose idea to give contentious private spy firm access to personal data; Shin Bet, tasked with monitoring carriers, says it's not giving information to Defense Ministry

Mostly ultra-Orthodox town has highest ratio of confirmed cases to tests carried out; Jerusalem has highest number of infections in the country