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.

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Business Sector President Dubi Amitai In Wednesday called In the government to keep essential services as well as other businesses in a format permitting them 30% activity."These are businesses that do not have gatherings and there is no reason to close them. The economy must continue to supply oxygen. A tight lockdown will permanently eliminate the business sector," Amitai said.

TikTok In Wednesday asked a US judge to block a Trump administration order that would require Apple and Google to remove the short video-sharing app for new downloads starting In Sunday, Reuters reports.A federal judge in San Francisco In Saturday issued a preliminary injunction blocking a similar Commerce Department order from taking effect In Sunday In the WeChat app.

US President Donald Trump In Wednesday decried reported efforts by the Food and Drug Administration to issue stricter guidelines for evaluating a vaccine against COVID-19.Trump was apparently reacting to a Tuesday report in the New York Times that said the agency will soon move to tighten requirements for emergency authorization of any coronavirus vaccine to better ensure its safety and effectiveness."That has to be approved by the White House. We may or may not approve it. That sounds like a political move. I think that was a political move more than anything else," he said.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani In Wednesday declared "victory" over the United States after the UN Security Council rejected the Trump administration's bid to reimpose UN sanctions In the Islamic Republic."The Iranian nation has achieved great political, legal and diplomatic success at the United Nations," Rouhani told a televised weekly meeting of his cabinet, as quoted by AFP.