A) Health Minister Yaakov Litzman and his wife????have been diagnosed with Covid-19????. His positive test means that many of the country’s most senior civil servants and politicians including PM Netanyahu will need to enter quarantine⛓as they have been in recent contact with him.
B) Further regulations have been announced as Israel battles the spread of corona????. Israelis are now being asked to wear masks????when they leave their homes. Those who do not own masks are asked to improvise using cloths????.
C) Scuffles broke out between police and civilians in Jaffa when police????????arrested a man suspected of ignoring his quarantine order⛓.
D) The negotiations to form a unity government are continuing. The major sticking points remain how to distribute the cabinet positions????and the annexation of certain areas of the West Bank????.
E) The Chief Rabbis of Israel have again come out against ❎the use of technology ????during seder????????. A group of senior Sephardi Rabbis had said Zoom was allowed✅to be used during seder to prevent the elderly????????from leaving their homes to be with family. Several prominent Rabbis have suggested doing the seder in a different order???? allowing families to join together over zoom????for certain parts of the seder before chag starts????????.