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13-14 March 2020
TODAY’S ONGOING BLOG:
UPDATE Breaking News: Corona In Israel
9:10 pm:
PM Netanyahu is speaking at this moment. Here are the salient points as he delivers them:
*There are now 193 confirmed Corona cases in Israel.
*Israelis need to adopt a different lifestyle while the virus is raging.
*”If you are quarantined, you need to be absolutely quarantined.”
*There is no reason to hoard food. There will be no shortages.
*Try to avoid using public transportation.
*Kindergartens are closed until further notice.
*All IDF soldiers are confined to base for the next 30 days.
*All training of reservists is halted until after Passover.
5:30 pm:
Photo of the Day
A stern, masked, David Ben Gurion now greets passengers to Ben Gurion Airport in Lod.
*There are now 164 confirmed cases in Israel. 3 new patients are in critical condition; 3 more are in “fair” condition–all others are in good condition.
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*The “old” patient who is was in critical condition has staged a rather amazing recovery. He is the only patient in Israel thus far to have been treated with Remdesivir, an antiviral drug that has already proven effective against Ebola, Marburg, Mers, Sars, Nipah, and Hendra viruses.
*In order to avoid what has happened in Italy, some medical personnel are now proposing that all Israelis go into self-quarantine for 3 days–and older adults remain in isolation for three weeks.
*More than 1000 Israeli tourists in India are now stranded after the Indian government canceled all Air India flights in and out India.
*In response to the Corona emergency, PM Netanyahu has proposed an emergency government which would have:
—a six month coalition partnership
—the ability to veto the Joint Arab List
—Likud and Blue/White each have 3-4 ministers
At the conclusion of six months, the situation would revert to the way it is now with the President recommending someone to form a government
Non-Corona News
The weather . . .
As we noted Thursday, southern Israel has been the scene of wild weather. Here are two photos from Eilat yesterday:
Smashed chairs along the boardwalk in Eilat with heavy surf in the background.
Another photo:
Another view of the flooded promenade, this one with the Queen of Sheba Hotel in the background.
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
*Two terrorists armed with grenades and knives were captured while attempting to infiltrate into Israel from Gaza.
*At 7:59 pm Thursday night, terrorists in Gaza fired another missile into southern Israel. There was no response by the IDF.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.