The government wants to rebuild public trust in its virus fight. But it's just done the opposite with the chaotic and unsettling way it adopted stricter measures

Inventors of self-service spit test have signed a deal with airport security giant to pilot tech on the continent, predict it will be a ‘de facto solution for air travel’

Hadassah head Zeev Rothstein says 'theater of the absurd' is a threat to public health and hospitals' financial stability

Iran's director of the National Coronavirus Control Center says the whole country 'is in red' when it comes to the color system

How did Israel become world’s first country reimposing lockdown? It's not just a story of rising infections, but also of fragile religious-secular relations, nervous politicians

Closure will ‘kill the Israeli spirit,’ says Hagai Levine of COVID-19 czar’s expert panel, as another critic predicts bad results and a rerun in 3 months

As government set to decide on exact lockdown rules, Yizhar Shai tells ToI rules will focus on keeping people sane, including opening playgrounds and outdoor exercise equipment

'We now know the enemy better,' says Noam Stern-Ginossar, after finding 4 previously unknown proteins that may be wreaking havoc in COVID-19 patients

Fresh restrictions, starting Friday, won’t feel anything like the spring closure, claims head of virus czar’s expert panel

Government adviser Masad Barhoum is ‘afraid,’ warns that people in his community will only wake up to threat when they see ‘many from their village dying’