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Mossad Chief Enters into Quarantine over Coronavirus


Thu 02 Apr 2020 | 04:28 PM
Ahmed Moamar

Israeli media confirmed that the Chief of the Mossad (the spying foreign agency), Yossi Cohen, has entered into the quarantine.

Cohen was diagnosed with the Coronavirus after he had met the Minister of Health in Israel, Yakov Litzman, and his wife with the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19).

The World Health Organization (WHO) renamed the virus as COVID-19 on March.

Yedioth Ahronoth, a wide-circulated newspaper in Israel, reported on Thursday that Cohen would have to isolate himself at the Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv for three days, because he had met Litzman recently.

The newspaper indicated that the health authorities in Israel asked also the Adviser of the Israeli National Security Council, Meir Bin Shabat to enter into the quarantine. He met with the infected minister days ago.

Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper confirmed this news.

It explained that all Israeli officials who met with Litzman and his wife during the past two weeks would be forced to enter into quarantine, according to the directives issued by the Ministry of Health.

Among these officials is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose office announced that he is entering quarantine until next Wednesday..

To date, 6211 confirmed cases of the Coronavirus have been recorded in Israel, among 31 deaths have occurred.

Yediot Aharonot also reported, on Thursday, that 900 Jewish extremists from the residents of Bnei Barak area, a stronghold for ultra-Orthodox Jews in Tel Aviv, have been confirmed infested with the Coronavirus.

The Jewish extremists refuse to adhere to the Israeli government's precautionary measures to prevent the outbreak of the Corona epidemic.

So skirmishes are frequent between them and the Israeli police who used helicopters and truncheons to control them.

Social media outlets have released a video footage showing the Haredi (extremists) gathered in the streets and deliberately coughing at the Israeli police, "mocking the crisis Coronavirus.