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Israel’s museums go online for immersive experience amid pandemic Jerusalem Controversy

Israel’s museums go online for immersive experience amid pandemic

Getting tired of Netflix, online learning and doing house chores during the coronavirus quarantine? Try taking a virtual museum tour from your home. Israel’s museums are using the web to offer cultural options during the coronavirus lockdown, hosting virtual tours of current exhibits, activities for the young and old, talks…
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March 17, 2020
Memorial Day events to be canceled or held without audience amid corona outbreak Jerusalem Controversy

Memorial Day events to be canceled or held without audience amid corona outbreak

In a dramatic move, the Defense Ministry announced Tuesday that April’s national Memorial Day ceremonies will take place without audiences and that the smaller events planned for municipal cemeteries across the country will be canceled outright, in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Israel’s Memorial Day — known as Yom Hazikaron…
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March 17, 2020
Iran Reports More Than 100 New Coronavirus Deaths as Fears Mount Jerusalem Controversy

Iran Reports More Than 100 New Coronavirus Deaths as Fears Mount

The official leading Iran's response to the new coronavirus acknowledged Sunday that the pandemic could overwhelm health facilities in his country, which is battling the worst outbreak in the Middle East while under heavy US sanctions. Iran's Health Ministry reported another 113 deaths, bringing the country's total death toll to…
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March 15, 2020
Solitary guides leading tours in empty museums: Jerusalem’s new tourism plan Jerusalem Controversy

Solitary guides leading tours in empty museums: Jerusalem’s new tourism plan

With Jerusalem’s tourist scene decimated just before Passover and Easter, its tourist chiefs are launching an online platform to give people a “virtual” experience in the city. Museum staff will run trips inside empty museums, accompanied by cameras instead of tour groups, and guides will do the same on the…
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March 15, 2020
Netanyahu reassures over food supplies: ‘No reason to storm supermarkets’ Jerusalem Controversy

Netanyahu reassures over food supplies: ‘No reason to storm supermarkets’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday sought to reassure Israelis that the raft of restrictions imposed to try and stem the spread of the coronavirus would not affect the food supply, saying there was “no reason to storm supermarkets.” Netanyahu’s comments came after he met with ministers and senior officials…
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March 13, 2020