Vaccine protection 'weaker than we'd hoped' against Delta, PM says; inoculations help, but 'significantly less' than with previous strains; gov't seeks to approve home testing kits

Travelers must now quarantine for a day or until negative test result; on July 23, Spain, Kyrgyzstan will enter no-go list while returnees from UK, Turkey will need full quarantine

Pfizer says trial results for those aged 5-11 likely in by September; company seeking full approval, as some are hesitant due to emergency use authorization

Travel to Spain likely to be barred from next week, and those returning from there will need to quarantine; Cyprus, Turkey also flagged by health officials

Health minister agrees to give preference to union's demands in talks with Finance Ministry; strike led to build up of trash in medical centers, raising hygiene concerns

Ambulance service urges those fasting to drink large quantities of water prior to doing so; temperatures not forecast to fall until middle of next week

Ministers presented with predictions that serious COVID-19 cases could hit 1,000 in five weeks' time; patterns of serious illness similar to previous waves

PM says Israel can avert another closure if rules heeded, urges Israelis to cancel trips abroad, blames renewed outbreak on the previous government's 'serious neglect'

Salman Zarka, a Bedouin professor, is already on COVID-19 advisory panel; he served in IDF for 25 years and oversaw field hospital that treated Syrian civil war wounded

Number of serious cases rises to 53; officials to test all of them for new subvariant, fearing it may be more contagious and virulent than predecessors