Unclear if compromise will stave off strike by Israeli Medical Association

Israel Medical Association announces labor dispute, says its 28,000 members will stop working if demands aren't met within 14 days

Help center goes online on International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia; discredited practice remains legal in Israel but is discouraged by Health Ministry

Diagnosed practitioners more than doubled in recent days, amid reports of equipment shortages and insufficient protection

Hospitals suffer mass quarantining of medical staff after patients, fellow staffers found to be carrying the new coronavirus; Jerusalem nurse says she only has 1 mask she's saving

Situation where government orders ever-increasing restrictions on public life to curb virus could have been avoided, says Shoresh Institution chief

Dr. Yael Bar-Zeev says that while system copes with 8,000 yearly deaths from smoking, special steps needed to stop it collapsing if thousands of COVID-19 cases emerge at once