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A patient suffering from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) wears a full-face Easybreath snorkelling mask given by sport chain Decathlon and turned into a ventilator for coronavirus treatment

Israel won't test people with COVID-19 symptoms unless they've traveled

Even those exhibiting serious symptoms will only be tested if they have recently traveled either abroad or to the Palestinian territories.

Intelligence Community Inspector General Atkinson departs after testifying at a House Intelligence Committee closed-door hearing on a whistleblower complaint about President Trump's dealings with Ukraine, on Capitol Hill in Washington

Trump fires intelligence community watchdog who handled Ukraine complaint

A woman wears a face mask on the subway as the coronavirus outbreak continued in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S., March 13, 2020

Trump advises mask use against coronavirus but won't wear one himself

Ziv Medical team workers seen at a coronavirus critical care unit, at the Ziv Medical Center in Tzfat on April 2, 2020.

42 victims of coronavirus, more than 7,500 Israelis are infected

Breaking News

10:22 AM Israel's coronavirus death toll reaches 42, number of infected 7,589

08:51 AM Coronavirus death toll in Israel rises to 41

11:29 AM Trump fires intelligence community watchdog who handled Ukraine complaint

TOP NEWS

Robert F. Kennedy

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By ZACHARY KEYSER

People walk on a skybridge from the emergency room building at Providence Regional Medical Center after a spokesman from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said a traveler from China has been the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus, in

New York in 'race against time' as death tolls jump in US virus hot spots

US President Donald Trump addresses the daily coronavirus response briefing as Vice President Mike Pence and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin listen at the White House in Washington, US, April 2, 2020

Russian ventilators sent to US made by firm under US sanctions

Coronavirus: Shin Bet completes review of Litzman’s phone

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN , CELIA JEAN

Ya'acov Litzman

Litzman disobeyed health rules before contracting coronavirus - report

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Ehud Olmert

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MIDDLE EAST

A Palestinian woman, wearing a mask as a preventive measure against coronavirus, looks out of a car upon her return from abroad, at Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip

Coronavirus: Israel must help Hamas without creating a security threat

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

TWO ISRAELIS look over a portion of the West Bank.

UN: Settler violence against Palestinians has increased during COVID-19

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

UN Secretary-General calls for global ceasefire, Israeli-Palestinian cooperation

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Prison

Algerian, international NGOs, call for release of jailed reporter

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

Prison cell block

UN worried about Iran prisoners amid coronavirus outbreak

ANALYSIS AND FEATURES

PM Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with European leaders about coronavirus, March 2020

World powers turn to Israel for coronavirus pandemic leadership example

By FLEUR HASSAN-NAHOUM

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened of a total lockdown as coronavirus infects 2,369 Israelis

Ehud Olmert to 'Post': Netanyahu must stop with the scare tactics

Welcome to Israel's hotel coronavirus

By MAYA MARGIT/THE MEDIA LINE

Hungarian Jewish community offers kosher chicken amid coronavirus pandemic

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Lauren Hoffmann covers her and her son Asa’s eyes during their Shabbat dinner in San Antonio, Texas in February

Unprecedented call from world's chief rabbis to unite against coronavirus

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Hannah Lyon and her mother, after arriving at Ben Gurion Airport.

Nefesh B’Nefesh – Keeping a Virtual Connection with New Immigrants “It gave me incredible peace of mind to be able to reach out to Nefesh B’ Nefesh.”

Walls for fans to write tributes to Kobe Bryant in Microsoft Square near the Staples Center after a helicopter crash killed the retired basketball star, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 28, 2020

Kobe Bryant, 7 others elected to Basketball Hall of Fame - report Bryant, Duncan, Garnett and Catchings all are first-time finalists. Nominees needed to received at least 18 votes from the 24 electors to be enshrined.

ISN rider Alex Dowsett

ISN invites cyclists to ride out coronavirus lockdown at home For each participant that takes part in Sunday's cycling series, a KN95 protective mask will be donated in their name via ISN minority co-owner Dr. Kevin Ham.

Tamar Perets-Levi and her children

Israel raises NIS 2m. to support orphaned twins whose mom died of corona “It is our collective responsibility to care for these young orphan boys."

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Israel News

Coronavirus test site for the residents of Bnei Brak

Bnei Brak - the coronavirus capital of the Jewish state

By JEREMY SHARON

Israeli police officers take out Ultra orthodox jewish men from the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, as part of an effort to enforce lockdown in order to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus, April 2, 2020.

Coronavirus: Thousands of police officers enforce Bnei Brak lockdown

By ANNA AHRONHEIM

Bnei Brak resident went to pray while knowing he has coronavirus

BENNY GANTZ : His government would only have to last until Netanyahu is indicted

No coalition deal reached by Shabbat

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz

Benny Gantz betrayed no one

By AMOTZ ASA-EL

WORLD NEWS

Street view after Wuhan government announced to ban non-essential vehicles in downtown area to contain coronavirus outbreak, on the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, in Wuhan

China observes national day of mourning for COVID-19 victims

BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT Jair Bolsonaro receives the Friends of Zion Award in Jerusalem

Brazilians scorn Bolsonaro's coronavirus efforts, back health officials

Large piles of boxes of Corona beer dwarf a stock taker in the warehouse of Mexico City's Modelo brewery

Mexico without Corona: Brewers suspend production during pandemic

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a news conference next to President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 29, 2020

White House: Anyone near Trump or Pence must be checked for coronavirus

US President Donald Trump addresses the daily coronavirus response briefing as Vice President Mike Pence and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin listen at the White House in Washington, US, April 2, 2020

Americans urged to wear masks outside as coronavirus pandemic worsens

Antisemitism / BDS

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo delivers remarks at a news conference. New York City, New York, U.S., March 2, 2020

New York State approves 'Josef Neumann Hate Crimes Domestic Terrorism Act'

By OMRI NAHMIAS

Politicians and religious leaders hold a banner reading 'France against racism and antisemitism' as they take part in a silent march through Paris in 2006 following the torture and killing of young Jewish victim Ilan Halimi.

Coronavirus crisis in France sparks antisemitic conspiracy theories

By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA

Gavel lying in front of a judge

Pennsylvania man charged with making threats to Jews, other minorities

By MARCY OSTER/JTA

Giuseppe Alberti, Alleged martyrdom of Simonino da Trento, 1677, oil on canvas, Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio. Provincial monuments and collections.

Steps against a blood libel that is still bleeding – opinion

By SHIMON SAMUELS

A ladder stands in front of two paintings by Pablo Picasso at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; Picasso smashed the rules of painting and sculpture

Picasso painting looted by Nazis will return to heirs of Jewish banker

By MARCY OSTER/JTA

Diaspora

A Federal law enforcement officer stands outside the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse in the Brooklyn borough in New York April 2, 2015. Two New York City women have been arrested in an alleged conspiracy to build a bomb and wage a "terrorist attack" in the United States, according to a federal criminal

Brooklyn man arrested after coughing on FBI agents

By LEON SVERDLOV

Quebec boreal forest

Quebec Hasidic Jewish community under quarantine due to coronavirus oubreak

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

US Politics

Former vice president Joe Biden (Left) and US President Donald Trump (Right)

How will coronavirus impact the 2020 US presidential race?

By OMRI NAHMIAS

Former vice president Joe Biden (Left) and US President Donald Trump (Right)

Political rivals Biden, Trump may talk about coronavirus

Health & Science

An employee of German biopharmaceutical company CureVac, demonstrates research workflow on a vaccine for the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease at a laboratory in Tuebingen, Germany

No coronavirus vaccine can inoculate against anti-vaxxers

MIGAL's biotechnology group's team is hard at work on a vaccine for COVID-19.

Israeli scientists: Coronavirus vaccine to be tested on humans by June 1

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN , AARON REICH , REUTERS

JPOST TECH

A man wears a face mask as he walks in a market in Ashkelon while Israel tightened a national stay-at-home policy following the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ashkelon, Israel March 20, 2020.

Telzstone beats back its severe coronavirus outbreak

By JEREMY SHARON

A medical worker wearing a protective mask and glasses, who treats patients suffering from coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is seen in an intensive care unit at the Oglio Po hospital in Cremona, Italy

Tommy the robot nurse helps keep Italy doctors safe from coronavirus

Food

KOSHER INSPECTOR Aaron Wulkan examines meat to ensure that the food is stored and prepared according to Jewish regulations and customs in a Bat Yam store.

Kosher slaughterhouse for geese switches to chicken due to coronavirus

By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA

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Empire Kosher closes processing plant after employees contract coronavirus

By MARCY OSTER/JTA

Culture

The 2020 finalists for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature

Sami Rohr Prize announces finalists for 2020 literary prize

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Judaism

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The sheep was an idolatrous symbol for the Egyptian nation

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Travel

Yasuhiro Inaoka, who manages apartments for owners who provide short-term homestay lodging, arranges a bed after guests checked out at an apartment which is used as Airbnb service in Tokyo

Airbnb to pay out $250 million to hosts to ease coronavirus cancellations

ISRAEL’S HOTELS are looking up.

Caesar Hotels to provide loans to workers on unpaid leave

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A cat is seen on the shoulder of her owner during the Vietnam's first cat show in Hanoi, Vietnam February 16, 2020.

New study finds that cats can catch coronavirus, but dogs cannot

Toddler goes viral for instructing people to stay home due to coronavirus

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