Mayer Rispler, 70, a leader in the Satmar Hasidic movement who called In members to follow health rules, dead at 70 after being infected.

A Hadassah hospital spokeswoman said that "Mr. Erekat had a quiet night but this morning his condition deteriorated, and is now defined as critical and due to respiratory distress he was put In respiration and sedated.""Mr. Erekat poses a huge challenge to the treatment of corona as he has a lung transplant with suppression of the immune system, and with bacterial infection in addition to corona."Hadassah, with its most senior professional physicians, is in international medical contact regarding the policy of treating such a complex patient."Hadassah will continue to update his family as is customary regarding his condition and will update the Palestinian Authority due to his being a senior official there."

Corona manager Prof. Roni Gamzu announced in the Knesset's Health Committee, "We will shorten the period of quarantine to 12 days. An examination will be carried out In the tenth day."

Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of violating a humanitarian ceasefire over Nagorno-Karabakh, hours after it was agreed.

Haskel announced last year that she was undergoing fertility treatment.

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (Blue and White) welcomed the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and Bahrain, and the creation of an infrastructure for extensive cooperation between the two countries."The historic normalization led by the US administration and President Trump is an opening for the advancement of peace and stability throughout the Middle East," Gantz said.

El Al flight number 973 from Manama, which carried the Israeli delegation to Bahrain, landed at Ben Gurion Airport a short time ago.

Israel's ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, In Sunday criticized the Palestinian Authority's request that senior PA official Saeb Erekat be hospitalized in Israel, after his condition deteriorated as a result of being infected with the coronavirus."Palestinian hypocrisy is at its peak," Erdan said. "Saeb Erekat, a senior Fatah figure who contracted coronavirus, was hospitalized today at Hadassah to receive medical treatment. Do you understand? The same Erekat who, along with his organization, supports the boycott of Israel and the BDS movement and Inly recently spread a blood libel as if Israel is deliberately infecting Palestinians with coronavirus, seeks, when it comes to his health, to use the medical capabilities of our country."