Quarantine

Aid group says seven Americans quarantining at Kenya Ebola facility after US travel ban

Washington's new policy says American citizens returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there is an Ebola outbreak, must spend three weeks in a third country before entering the US

Protesters hold a banner and chant slogans as they march during a demonstration against a controversial US-built Ebola quarantine centre slated to begin operations at Laikipia Air Base in Nanyuki on June 9, 2026.
Demonstrators gather near a barricade they created during a protest against a U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine plan on the establishment of a 50-bed facility at a Kenyan air force base that was intended to host Americans exposed to Ebola, in Nanyuki town, in Laikipia County, Kenya June 1, 2026.

Kenyan police fire tear gas during protest against US Ebola quarantine facility

Demonstrators gather near a barricade they created during a protest against a U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine plan on the establishment of a 50-bed facility at a Kenyan air force base that was intended to host Americans exposed to Ebola, in Nanyuki town, in Laikipia County, Kenya June 1, 2026.

Two people killed in Kenya protest against US Ebola quarantine site plan, organizer, sources say

 : A general view of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta

CDC classifies hantavirus outbreak to 'level 3' of emergency activation


Israelis put in isolation by Shin Bet could isolate for 12, not 14, days

Last month, the Health Ministry shortened the recovery and quarantine release times for coronavirus patients in certain cases after it adopted the recommendations of the World Health Organization.

Health Ministry inspectors speak with a woman who is in self quarantine as a precaution against coronavirus spread in Hadera

Hospital worker in Israel breaks quarantine, hops on plane to Ukraine

The worker, reportedly from Bat Yam, contracted COVID-19 and was showing symptoms of the illness before boarding the plane.

NEARLY EMPTY: Ben-Gurion Airport waiting area

Beyonce's 'Black Is King' hopes to shift perception of being Black

'Black Is King' reimagines the story of the The Lion King movie with humans.

Beyonce performs at a campaign concert for U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. November 4, 2016

Chief Sephardi rabbi allows music during 3 weeks for those in quarantine

Jews around the world follow mourning practices in the three weeks before Tisha Be’av, the day on which the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed.

SEPHARDI CHIEF Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef

IDF reopens facility in Ashkelon for soldiers sick with coronavirus

Total of 663 service members have been diagnosed with the virus; military says troops on furlough can't meet in groups of over 5 people

Israeli army Technicians carry out a diagnostic test for coronavirus in a IDF lab in central Israel on July 15, 2020.

GoBidud: A kindness revolution helping those in quarantine

Services offered include running errands, taking out people’s garbage, doing their shopping, delivering care packages to children.

MEIR ROTH: Opportunity to share and care

IDF's top doctor: Number of soldiers with coronavirus per day tripled

Brig.-Gen. Tarif Bader says most quarantined troops continue to carry out operational duty, albeit removed from healthy troops

IDF's chief medical officer Brig.-Gen. Tarif Bader.

Rivlin slams gov’t: Did not develop theory to fight coronavirus

Cabinet to declare red zones in nine cities • Gantz enters quarantine

President Reuven Rivlin attends the Knesset session in which the new government was presented

Jordan begins enforcing quarantine with electronic bracelets

Anyone arriving in Jordan must enter one of the quarantine hotels in the country for 14 days and then self-isolate for another 14 days at home.

A man wears a protective face mask as he walks along the main market in downtown after the government eased the restrictions on movement aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus in Amman, Jordan

Coronavirus: Israel on the precipice of a disaster

Because Israel does not randomly screen people, the country cannot easily and quickly enough identify and separate the infected people who are asymptomatic, so they continue to spread the disease.

‘THE SHOCK, trauma and carnage wrought by coronavirus should be cause for introspection and reflection in Israel about many things, foremost, our often tortuous relations with the Palestinians and the PA.’