A 70-year-old pedestrian has been knocked down and killed by a truck in Herzliya. MDA paramedics who arrived at the scene were forced to declare the man's death.MDA emergency responder Yissachar Weiss and paramedic Eidan Shina related: "When we reached the scene of the accident, we found the victim lying unconscious the ground, with no pulse or respiration, with severe internal injuries. We were forced to declare his death."

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has invited the head of the Knesset's coronavirus committee, MK Yifat Shasha-Biton, to a ministerial discussion the government's efforts to combat the coronavirus epidemic.Shasha-Biton, a Likud member herself, has come under fire from her fellow party members in previous weeks, after she and other committee members overruled restrictions the general public imposed by the government.Galei Tzahal reports that a senior government official was present at the meeting, in order to facilitate the reaching of agreements between the two, and to enable Netanyahu and Shasha-Biton to agree future steps to take.

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At 12:53 Friday afternoon, United Airlines flight 090 from Newark touched down at Ben Gurion Airport and then seconds later took off again, taking its passengers back over the Mediterranean Sea.The pilot announced that a sudden unexpected gust of wind had caused the pilots to change course. The plane then approached for a second, safe landing twelve minutes later.

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Following a decision reached by the Knesset's coronavirus committee, government ministers convening via telephone call-in have authorized a new model for the operation of restaurants located within hotels.Kan News reports that several ministers, among them Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and Construction Minister Yakov Litzman, opposed the move, arguing that synagogues are being discriminated against, even though worshipers wear face masks and observe social distancing, both of which are largely impossible in restaurants.They thus demanded that synagogues should be permitted to allow entry up to 35% of their capacity.