Professor Yonatan Halevi, the co-CEO of Shaare Zedek Medical Center, told Galei Tzahal this morning that his hospital is seeing significant overcrowding due to the coronavirus epidemic."There is severe overcrowding and it's getting worse," he said, adding that "we are not about to collapse, however. Everything now depends In what happens in the next week or two."The professor noted that, "Israel is the Inly country in the world where patients are put In ventilators in the internal medicine wards. During this epidemic, this has worked in our favor, as it means that we have more professionals who are experienced with using these machines."

IDF fighters thwarted an attempted attack during an operational activity near the Palestinian Arab village of Malik, north of Ramallah.The fighters identified a number of terrorists who tried to throw firebombs and fired at them.

Yamina chairman MK Naftali Bennett In Wednesday night criticized the hermetic lockdown that the government is expected to announce."Only ministers who do not know the meanings of inventory, customers and global competition are able to completely paralyze the Israeli industry, and lead to the further loss of thousands of jobs. And this is because the Likud and Blue and White are unable to agree In demonstrations and prayers. There is almost no epidemiological benefit in this closure and there is immense damage to it. Stop it," Bennett wrote In Twitter.

Interviewed In Reshet Bet this morning, deputy Health Minister Yoav Kish said:"We are seeing a record number of cases, and the epidemic continues to rage among us. You can see the number of victims for yourselves, and the high rate of contagion. There's nothing more important right now than protecting people's health, stopping the contagion, and imposing restrictions to achieve this. It's ridiculous to suggest that we're responding out of panic. All we are doing is responding to the way people have been behaving."

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British Labour leader Keir Starmer reiterated a commitment to "root out" anti-Semitism during his first speech to a Labour conference as leader.Addressing the party virtually in Doncaster, delivered without an audience due to coronavirus, he was introduced by Jewish former MP Ruth Smeeth, who lost her seat in the December elections.