Additional vaccination shot cuts rate of serious illness by a factor of three, gives limited defense against infection, new research says

For debut work of fiction about anorexic high school girls, 25-year-old E.J. Schwartz draws on her own recent experience of social media-influenced devastating drive for thinness

Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis maintains that restrictions need to remain for now due to still-high daily infection count; credits vaccine with decline in serious illnesses and death

Daily cases fall below 10,000 and serious cases continue to decline

Nachman Ash says no new measures are planned for Passover; transmission rate and number of serious cases falling, though Israel still seeing 10,000 new daily cases

Force doesn't identify any of those penalized; prime minister's office says it will reveal if the PM himself is slapped with a fine

Preliminary research by Clalit shows just one fully-boosted elderly Israeli died for every five who were un-boosted, raising question of how many could have been saved globally

The financial capital has become China's COVID hotspot, with 3,500 new cases detected Sunday; residents complain of city's 'inconsistent' control measures

Passengers now advised to arrive at Ben Gurion four hours before flights as airport struggles to implement COVID protocols, scale-up from cutbacks

Health Minister chief Nachman Ash says the pandemic could be over in a matter of months, but cautions that there is always the risk of additional variants forming