'We need to bring down the number of new infections per day to under 100,' says ex-Health Ministry chief Gabi Barbash.

MK Naftali Bennett has expressed his satisfaction with the authorization of a plan to make the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron accessible to the disabled, saying that "it's time we stopped being afraid of ourselves.""After years of hesitation, as Defense Minister, I approved plans for making the site disabled-friendly," Bennett said. "The Tomb of the Patriarchs belongs to the entire Jewish People and should be accessible to everyone."

A 21-year-old laborer has fallen from a height while at work in Maale Adumim.A MDA team treated him at the scene and evacuated him to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in moderate condition.

Coalition head MK Miki Zohar (Likud) has called In the Health Minister to appoint former director-general of the Health Ministry, Moshe Bar Siman Tov, to replace Prof. Ronni Gamzu as the government's coronavirus project manager, when Gamzu retires from his position at the end of October."What's important is that unlike Prof. Gamzu, Moshe Bar Siman Tov was successful in dealing with the first wave of the epidemic and managed to curb the increase in contagion and even reduced the number of seriously ill patients. There is no Ine more suitable than him to serve as coronavirus project manager," he asserted.

According to data supplied by the Health Ministry, 7,188 of the country's active virus cases are in the Jerusalem area out of a total of 64,608 active cases.4,052 are from Bnei Brak 2,946 are from Ashdod 2,184 are from Tel Aviv 1,116 are from Beit Shemesh 1,059 are from Beitar Illit and 1,001 are from Ashkelon.

Archeological finds dating back to the ancient kingdoms of Judea and Israel could shed light In the Jewish measurement unit, the tefah.

'People need a place to remember Ine of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century,' says Ukrainian president at opening of memorial center.

Speaking with representatives of haredi media outlets, the director-general of the Health Ministry, Prof. Hezi Levy, claimed that haredim are responsible for a third of all coronavirus infections in the country."We're not interested in gaining herd immunity," Levy said, "not in the haredi community, and not in the rest of the population either. We haven't seen that it achieved anything significant in countries where it was attained. It doesn't decrease the fatality rate."This is why I am so distressed at the tishes [chassidic gatherings] I see," he added, "with people behaving as if there was no such thing as coronavirus. This is not the right way - it is irresponsible and lacking all concern for others. Who are you endangering? You are endangering your own families, your own grandparents."