Public protest erupts in Lebanon despite COVID-19 lockdown

Dozens of protesters flocked back onto Lebanon’s streets to express fury over deteriorating living conditions exacerbated since the government-imposed lockdown measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus. The pandemic…

Israel welcomes 35th government

Residents of Jerusalem are generally voicing joy over the long-overdue establishment of national emergency government. Similar to the reactions reported from the coastal city of Tel Aviv immediately after the…

Coronavirus surge in Israel

Following two weeks of a seeming decline in the upward trend of newly confirmed coronavirus cases throughout the State of Israel, it now appears an exponential rise has once again…

Netanyahu eases coronavirus restrictions

Some 905 Israeli coronavirus patients have completely healed from disease over the weekend; as figures provided by the country’s Health Ministry are seemingly show a positive decline in the upward…

Red Cross warns of COVID impact on volatile Middle East

The Geneva-Headquartered International Committee of the Red Cross warns that multiple outbreaks of the corona contagion across the Middle East could shatter the lives of millions of already destitute people…

Israel to gradually reopen several commercial sectors

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted the National Security Council’s and Defense Ministry’s proposal to gradually reopen several commercial sectors closed due to the coronavirus crisis , subject to restrictions…