'We were drawn to the place, and we won't let it go,' says one of the former cafe staffers behind the Headstart page that aims to raise NIS 250,000

'Jewish Olympics' for over 10,000 global athletes were scheduled to take place in Israel next June

With large price gaps between supermarkets for matzah and Passover items such as potato starch, consumers advised to compare prices, which, overall, are similar to last year's

Death toll climbs to 34 with 8 fresh fatalities and 689 confirmed new cases; 83 on ventilators; authorities ramp up testing, with 6,169 checks on Thursday

Yaakov Litzman's positive test has forced Netanyahu and most of the top Israeli officials tackling pandemic into quarantine; he denies claims he ignored ban on group prayer

64% of dead are male, only 6% under 60, in line with global averages; 50,000 now deceased worldwide, with nearly a million infections

Economists predict up to 20 million unemployed Americans by end of April, unemployment rate as high as 15%, as coronavirus epidemic bludgeons world economies

Crowded sections of Brooklyn and Queens suffer much higher rates of infection than wealthy areas, likely because larger families tend to live together