Lockdown

Lockdown lifted following reported active shooter situation at New Jersey air force base

The lockdown was implemented following a possible active shooter situation on base, KAN reported.

 A US B-2 Spirit bomber, part of the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, stops for refueling at the US military base on Diego Garcia in this file photo taken October 8, 2001, following an air strike mission over Afghanistan.
Incoming freshmen march to their living quarters after the Oath of Office ceremony during Induction Day at the U.S. Naval Academy on June 26, 2025 in Annapolis, Maryland.

US naval academy on lockdown following report of armed intruder - report

 Illustrative image of people in an office.

An end to remote work? Even Zoom employees are asked to return to office

 People adapted to the imposed decrease in social interaction

Social anxiety: Impact of forced lockdowns and isolation


Israel is in a de-facto lockdown - editorial

PM Naftali Bennett is determined not to put Israel into lockdown, but the situation is very close to the lockdowns in 2020.

 Closed down shops at the Azrieli shopping mall  on December 27, 2020, as Israel enters its 3rd nationawide lockdown, in an effort to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.

Gal Gadot admits her 'Imagine' celebrity video 'was in poor taste'

The Wonder Woman actress posted the video nearly two years ago with other notable celebrities singing as a response to the first major lockdown of the pandemic, which drew widespread media criticism.

Actor Gal Gadot arrives to attend the National Board of Review awards gala in New York, U.S., January 9, 2018

2021 was the year of the coronavirus vaccine

“I think we are in a revolution that no one believed would happen.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein pose for a photograph with Janet Lavi-Azulay, 34, the 5 millionth Israeli to get the Pfize vaccine, in Tel Aviv on March 8

Bennett: We’ll make every effort to keep the economy open

'We got through the Delta variant without a single day of lockdown. We didn’t close businesses and we didn’t close the education system,' Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday.

 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the cabinet meeting, December 5, 2021.

Who benefits from COVID hypocrisy?

Even if governments beat the pandemic, they may find the long aftershock has been set in motion. 

Right-wing chairman and candidate for prime minister, Naftali Bennett, now votes in Raanana accompanied by his wife Gilat

Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company back with COVID-inspired performance

It was only after the coronavirus limitations were lifted that Rami Be’er could take stock of what had happened.

 Illusion, dance responds to the pandemic.

Did Israel harm ties with Diaspora Jews by closings doors during COVID? - analysis

Israel is supposed to be the homeland for all the Jewish people. Perhaps it is time that the government rolled out the welcome mat.

A passenger at Ben Gurion Airport

The lion tunnel: A short story

This story is an excerpt from the upcoming novel A Hard Day’s Life. 

 ‘SINCE WE can’t, he likes to  drive through this tunnel.’

COVID lockdown demonstrated old-fashioned gender behavioral patterns

The lockdown served as a live social experiment, Austrian researchers say, and revealed men-women behavioral differences.

A woman wears a protective mask during the coronavirus pandemic

Australian police clash with anti-lockdown protesters, arrest nearly 270

In Sydney, riot squad officers, highway patrol, detectives, and general duties police were also deployed to the streets, preventing large gatherings.

 The Australian flag (Illustrative).