There are 18,461 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Israel as of Thursday, an increase of 106 new cases since Wednesday night.
The number of active cases, which had dropped to less than 2,000 in May, rose to 2,947. One death was confirmed, raising the death toll to 300.
A total of 31 patients are in serious condition, of whom 24 are ventilated.
Israel’s borders will continue to remain closed to non-citizens through July 1, a Channel 12 News report said. The decision was made due to the spike in coronavirus cases in recent weeks.
Trading at Israel’s Diamond Exchange was temporarily suspended after a trader tested positive for the virus on Tuesday, Ynet reported.
An employee of the Rishon L’Tzion municipality tested positive for the virus on Wednesday, sending all municipality employees into quarantine.
Also in Rishon L’Tzion, Channel 12 News reported that a confirmed virus patient in the city was seen in a local nightclub, which has been ignoring coronavirus regulations, allowing hundreds of people to crowd into its venue, The Rishon L’Tzion municipality subsequently closed the venue down although the owner said that there had been only 600 people present, while the nightclub’s capacity is 1,930.
Also this week, four employees of the Israel Prison Service (IPS) at a prison in southern Israel were diagnosed with the virus, sending 60 IPS employees and ten prisoners into quarantine.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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There’s a word for people who are not citizens. It’s “aliens”. So why not use that instead of working your way around the topic by identifying what they’re not, like someone whose memory is going and has to reach for words that are just beyond the tip of his tongue. “You know, the thing.” “What do you call them, the animals who live with people but aren’t cats”.
Any way to blame chareidim for this?
Milhouse: Perhaps its because the editors are reporting a news item and using the identical language used in the notice issued to airlines yesterday by the Israel Airports Authority. Perhaps you should write a letter to the IAA complaining about their incorrect usage of the language and their gesture towards “political correctness” is unappreciated.
Milhouse – actually it’s called “tourists”.
The Israelis can’t be expected to be experts on English usage. Even the Jerusalem Post often makes mistakes in English that immediately identify the writer as someone who thinks in Hebrew.