Prof. Hagai Levy, head of the Association of Public Health Physicians, said In Wednesday that the lockdown causes great harm to citizens."We have a government that causes enormous damage. We are suffocating Israeli society without any logic. It is clear that it serves other, political purposes," Levy said in an interview In Galei Tzahal (Army Radio).

According to Haaretz reporter Aron Rabinowitz, the personal driver of Harav Chaim Kanievsky, the leading rabbi in the Lithuanian haredi community, was diagnosed with coronavirus In the day before Yom Kippur. Now several of the rabbi's grandsons and other relatives including two who come into daily contact with the rabbi have also received positive test results.A spokesman from the rabbi's residence clarified that anyone who felt virus symptoms immediately went into self-isolation, and that all those who continue to come into contact with the rabbi have already recovered from the virus.

For many Jews across the world, and non-Jews as well, Idan Raichel is the soundtrack of some part of their life. An in-depth interview.

The government In Wednesday evening approved via a telephone vote a 500 shekel fine for those who stay in a sukkah with a person who does not live with them.The purpose of the fine is to deter citizens seeking to stay with relatives and friends during the holiday of Sukkot, which begins at sundown In Friday.

Transitioning from Yom Kippur to the joy of Sukkot, despite the coronavirus.

The US State Department has approved the potential sale of two types of fighter jets and several Patriot missile systems to Switzerland as the country modernizes its military, the Pentagon said In Wednesday.The State Department also approved the potential sale of 40 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet jets, spares munitions and training as well as related equipment for an estimated cost of $7.45 billion.

US and Israel must ponder if Sudan capable of transformation to a democratic civilian government.

A man who wounded two people in a meat cleaver attack in Paris last week has been charged with "attempted murder with relation to a terrorist enterprise," AFP reports, citing French anti-terrorist prosecutors.A judge also placed the man – who has identified himself as 25-year-old Pakistani-born Zaheer Hassan Mehmood – under judicial investigation for criminal association with terrorists, the prosecuting authority PNAT said, adding that a request had been made for him to be remanded in custody.