Health

Travelers from Italy board an Alitalia plane after they were denied entry to Israel at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on February 27, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)

Israeli coronavirus carrier infected his wife and sold Purim costumes to children while sick

Health Ministry officials disinfected the store and contacted the schools of the couple’s children and passengers aboard the flight he took back from Italy.

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 28, 2020 10:21 am

Israel confirms first case of coronavirus

Ten other passengers quarantined for two weeks on a cruise ship off the coast of Japan tested negative.

February 21, 2020 9:38 am

Israelis quarantined for suspected coronavirus will get special voting booths for March 2 elections

Poll workers will wear protective gear.

February 18, 2020 6:22 am

In quarantined Chinese city, Israeli dad documents how his family is dealing with the coronavirus scare

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 7, 2020 12:50 pm

Hasidim, government officials and police officers stand in front of the K'hal Adas Greenville synagogue next door to JC Kosher Supermarket in Jersey City, the site of a deadly shooting, Dec. 11, 2019. (Laura E. Adkins/JTA)

Ideas

I treat epidemics, including community violence. Here’s my advice for containing the spread of anti-Semitism.

By Gary Slutkin January 31, 2020 1:17 pm

El Al airlines halts flights to China amid coronavirus epidemic

By Marcy Oster January 30, 2020 1:16 pm

Ideas

Jewish mom Pink opens up about aging and I feel so seen

By Lior Zaltzman January 29, 2020 11:59 am

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Ideas

Wearing your natural curls is an act of Jewish resistance

By Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield and Maital Friedman January 15, 2020 12:33 pm

22 dead in Israel’s worst flu season in a decade

By Marcy Oster January 8, 2020 3:35 pm

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Israeli coronavirus carrier infected his wife and sold Purim costumes to children while sick

Israel confirms first case of coronavirus

Israelis quarantined for suspected coronavirus will get special voting booths for March 2 elections

In quarantined Chinese city, Israeli dad documents how his family is dealing with the coronavirus scare

I treat epidemics, including community violence. Here’s my advice for containing the spread of anti-Semitism.

El Al airlines halts flights to China amid coronavirus epidemic

Jewish mom Pink opens up about aging and I feel so seen

Wearing your natural curls is an act of Jewish resistance

22 dead in Israel’s worst flu season in a decade

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