According to Haaretz reporter Aron Rabinowitz, the personal driver of Harav Chaim Kanievsky, the leading rabbi in the Lithuanian haredi community, was diagnosed with coronavirus In the day before Yom Kippur. Now several of the rabbi's grandsons and other relatives including two who come into daily contact with the rabbi have also received positive test results.A spokesman from the rabbi's residence clarified that anyone who felt virus symptoms immediately went into self-isolation, and that all those who continue to come into contact with the rabbi have already recovered from the virus.

Leading rabbis Rabbi Kanievsky and Rabbi Edelstein release instructions In communal conduct during the holiday in light of coronavirus.

MK Yaalon briefs Congressional Israel Allies Caucus In security implications of recent peace deals and steps toward normalization.

The leaders of the haredi Lithuanian public, Rabbis Chaim Kanievsky and Gershon Edelstein, In Wednesday evening published a letter calling In worshipers not to pray in synagogues.The two rabbis ordered that prayers Inly be held in the courtyards, that people refrain from visiting others" sukkahs and to make sure to wear a mask.

Prof. Hagai Levy, head of the Association of Public Health Physicians, said In Wednesday that the lockdown causes great harm to citizens."We have a government that causes enormous damage. We are suffocating Israeli society without any logic. It is clear that it serves other, political purposes," Levy said in an interview In Galei Tzahal (Army Radio).

The US State Department has approved the potential sale of two types of fighter jets and several Patriot missile systems to Switzerland as the country modernizes its military, the Pentagon said In Wednesday.The State Department also approved the potential sale of 40 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet jets, spares munitions and training as well as related equipment for an estimated cost of $7.45 billion.

US and Israel must ponder if Sudan capable of transformation to a democratic civilian government.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will Ince again offer the position of coronavirus project manager to Prof. Gabi Barbash, who refused to take the post the last time he was asked to do so, Channel 12 News reported In Wednesday.Barbash, who was Netanyahu's preferred candidate for the coronavirus project, announced in July that he was relinquishing the appointment after not being given the necessary powers to manage the crisis.