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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he delivers a speech at his Jerusalem office, regarding the new measures that will be taken to fight the coronavirus, March 14, 2020

Netanyahu says public should celebrate Passover, Easter, Ramadan alone

Another Israeli succumbs to COVID-19 * Despite suspicion, Netanyahu tests negative for coronavirus.

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon

Government rolls out unprecedented NIS 80b. financial aid package

PM Benjamin Netanyahu with parliamentary adviser Rivka Paluch, who tested positive for the coronavirus

Netanyahu, staff and family test negative for coronavirus

A Jewish ultra-Orthodox man looks onto a local billboard with instructions related to the coronavirus at a street in a Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, March 27, 2020

Want people to follow coronavirus guidelines? Create trust

Breaking News

22:13 PM COVID-19 hospitalizations double in four days in California - governor

22:02 PM Italy government to extend lockdown measures until Easter

22:31 PM US expected to renew sanctions waivers allowing Iran nonproliferation work

TOP NEWS

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.

Mossad obtains 10 million more protective masks for Israel

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men prepare matza, a traditional unleavened bread eaten during the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover, in Komemiyut, Israel

No matzah shortage supermarkets, Economy Ministry state

By JEREMY SHARON

Satmar Hasidic Jews await the arrival of Grand Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum at a mass gathering in the Brooklyn borough of New York December 2, 2015.

Jewish communities battle virus between mourning, solidarity

By ROSSELLA TERCATIN

Efforts to remove sick from Bnei Brak intensify

By JEREMY SHARON

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man speaks to an Israeli policeman after police removed him from a synagogue before closing it as they enforce restrictions of a partial lockdown against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem March 30, 2020.

Police disperse hundreds of haredim from Mea Shearim synagogues

By JEREMY SHARON

Hot Opinion

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MIDDLE EAST

Members of firefighters wear protective face masks, amid fear of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as they disinfect the streets, ahead of the Iranian New Year Nowruz, March 20, in Tehran, Iran March 18, 2020.

Iran's health minister says no shortage of special drugs

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz poses for a photo during his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia February 20, 2020

Saudi king will cover treatment for citizens with coronavirus

Land Day to be marked on balconies during coronavirus outbreak

By ANNA AHRONHEIM

A Palestinian worker makes a protective suit at a factory amid concerns over the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), east of Gaza City March 29, 2020

Six more Palestinians have tested positive for coronavirus

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

A member of medical staff swaps a Palestinian worker for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing, upon his return from Israel, outside the Israeli-controlled Tarqumiya checkpoint near Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank March 26, 2020

Palestinians close factories producing fake coronavirus masks, sanitizer

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

ANALYSIS AND FEATURES

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

Poll finds public gives good marks to Netanyahu on coronavirus

Biologists work in a laboratory at Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. in Haifa

Israeli company treats COVID-19 patients with placenta cells

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

Johnson & Johnson to start coronavirus vaccine human trials in September

By REUTERS

Post-corona world order: What was, is not what will be

Medical workers in protective suits treat patients suffering with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Rome, Italy

Coronavirus: The truth about Israel's ventilators

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

JPost Spotlight

Giant Olympic Rings are installed at the waterfront area at Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo, Japan, ahead of an official inauguration ceremony, six months before the opening of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games, January 17, 2020

Tokyo Olympics rescheduled for July 23, 2021, organizers say The Games were postponed last week and the delay is the first in the 124-year history of the modern Olympics.

ISRAEL’S HOTELS are looking up.

Caesar Hotels to provide loans to workers on unpaid leave Caesar Premier Hotels in Jerusalem, Eilat and Tiberias have closed their doors and put about 600 workers on unpaid leave in light of the coronavirus crisis

Police officers in coronavirus protective suits

Israel’s National Library to document impact of coronavirus on Jews The National Library of Israel has created an archive to document the impact of the coronavirus on Jewish communities around the world.

Alan Merrill

Alan Merrill, composer of 'I Love Rock ’N’ Roll' dies of coronavirus at 69 Merrill continued to write and perform as a solo artist and with different bands for the rest of his life and in 2019, released the song, “Your Love Song” on Valentine’s Day.

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Israel News

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) sit in an empty hall in front of President Reuven Rivlin and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein at the swearing in of the 23rd Knesset, March 16, 2020

Knesset to approve Shin Bet surveillance of coronavirus infected citizens

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a speech at his Jerusalem office, regarding the new measures that will be taken to fight the coronavirus, March 14, 2020

Internal fights on Right holding up coalition

Likud pushing for annexation even in coalition with Blue and White, Labor

By LAHAV HARKOV

Health Ministry inspectors speak with a woman who is in self quarantine as a precaution against coronavirus spread in Hadera, Israel March 16, 2020

IDF postponing combat support enlistment due to coronavirus

By ANNA AHRONHEIM

Assisted living facility Migdal Nofim in Jerusalem

Nursing homes emerge as front line in fight against coronavirus

By ROSSELLA TERCATIN

WORLD NEWS

easyJet

EasyJet grounds its entire aircraft fleet due to coronavirus restrictions

A Serbian Orthodox church is seen in the city of Kotor.

Prominent Serbian Orthodox Church bishop dies of coronavirus

Afghan National Army forces go towards the site of an airplane crash in Deh Yak district of Ghazni province, Afghanistan January 27, 2020.

At least 27 Afghan security personnel killed in Taliban assaults

Britain leaves EU on Brexit day

EU urges UK to extend Brexit talks due to coronavirus outbreak

Dominic Cummings, special adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives for a cabinet meeting to address the government's response to the global COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, at Downing Street in London, Britain March 12, 2020.

UK PM Johnson's senior adviser Cummings has coronavirus symptoms

Antisemitism / BDS

Famous composer Mikis Theodorakis (R) and veteran leftist politician Manolis Glezos watch a parliament session prior to a vote for a new austerity deal in Athens February 12, 2012.

Greek activist who tore swastika off the Acropolis in WW2 dies aged 97

Jewish people walk in front of the house where 5 people were stabbed at a Hasidic rabbi's home in Monsey, New York

Monsey attack victim Josef Neumann succumbs to injuries

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally in St Louis, Missouri, U.S., March 9, 2020.

Bernie Sanders’ Florida campaign office vandalized with swastikas

By MARCY OSTER/JTA

THOUSANDS OF New Yorkers gather in Foley Square last week at the No Hate. No Fear. solidarity march against the rise of antisemitism

Whitewashing the Holocaust, antisemitism and Bernie Sanders

By MANFRED GERSTENFELD

Orthodox Jews arrive during the 13th Siyum HaShas, a celebration marking the completion of the Daf Yomi, a seven-and-a-half-year cycle of studying texts from the Talmud, the canon of Jewish religious law, at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.

NJ man arrested for threatening Jews who break coronavirus rules

By MARCY OSTER/JTA

Diaspora

BILL DE BLASIO

NYC mayor to shuls: Close for coronavirus or be closed permanently

An elderly woman walks through a corridor of a retirement home as visits have been restricted due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) concerns, in Grevenbroich

2 Jewish nursing home residents in Cleveland catch coronavirus

By MARCY OSTER/JTA

US Politics

US President Donald Trump

Coronavirus: Nearly 50% of Americans say Donald Trump is doing a good job

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

John Kerry attends the NATO Summit in Warsaw on July 8, 2016.

John Kerry says Massie 'tested positive for being an a**hole'

By ZACHARY KEYSER , REUTERS

Health & Science

A supermarket in the "purple industrial zone" of Petah Tikvah.

Coronavirus: How to avoid eating all day when confined at home

By ROSSELLA TERCATIN

Workers from a disinfection service company sanitize a street in front of a branch of the Shincheonji Church where a woman known as "Patient 31" attended a service in Daegu, South Korea, February 19, 2020.

Israel must follow an Asian model to confront coronavirus

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

JPOST TECH

Microsoft divests from Israeli facial recognition firm AnyVision

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Dyson designs new ventilator to fight coronavirus

By RACHEL WOLF , REUTERS

Food

THE WRITER (right) with top pastry chef Eran Schwartzbard

Pascale's Kitchen: A safe, sweet Passover

By PASCALE PEREZ-RUBIN

FLAVORED HOMEMADE BREAD

In the Grain: A baker’s answer to the coronavirus

Culture

Actress Betty White accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 42nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Burbank

Betty White is in 'good health' self-isolating at her home in Los Angeles

By ZACHARY KEYSER

FILE PHOTO: Bob Dylan performs during the Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, U.S. June 17, 2017. Picture taken June 17, 2017

Bob Dylan drops 17-min song inspired by Kennedy assassination

Judaism

Rabbi Daniel Nevins, the dean of the rabbinical school at the Jewish Theological Seminary

Rabbinical school dean undergoes experimental corona treatment

By BEN HARRIS/JTA

MODERN MAN, who was accustomed to controlling the forces of nature, suddenly finds himself out of control

Parashat Vayikra: Let’s heed the call!

By SHMUEL RABINOWITZ

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Travel

PASSENGERS WAIT for their flights at Marrakesh Airport earlier this month. Several special flights departed Morocco, taking thousands of stranded Europeans home as the kingdom announced it was suspending all regular air traffic due to the coronavirus.

TRAVEL ADVISER: Travel in the time of the coronavirus

By MARK FELDMAN

An Egged bus in front of the Jerusalem Central Bus Station

Gov't cuts but doesn't cancel public transport amid coronavirus threat

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

OMG

One of the eight dogs rescued by the Ministry of Agriculture’s Plant protection and Inspections Services

25% increase in number of pets abandoned since the beginning of March

Rick Wiles, a Florida pastor known for his anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, is the founder of TruNews

Conservative Pastor: Spread of coronavirus in synagogues is divine punishment

By MARCY OSTER/JTA

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