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A lone Israeli soldier pays his respects at Mount Herzl military cemetery, closed due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, in Jerusalem on April 28 2020, Israel's Remembrance Day. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images

Israel Honors Its Fallen, Amid COVID-19

A Yom HaZikaron unlike any other.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews, wearing the traditional Tallit Jewish prayer shawls, pray along a street outside their closed synagogue in Jerusalem on March 29, 2020, while keeping a distance of two metres from one another following instructions to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images

Israel’s Religious Observance During the Global Pandemic

With Synagogues, Mosques and Churches closed, all religious groups are altering their practices.

Israelis wearing protective masks vote at one of the special polling station erected for the 5,600 voters under quarantine, many of whom had visited countries where the coronavirus COVID-19 is prevalent, during parliamentary election on March 2, 2020 in Tel Aviv. GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images

How the Coronavirus is Affecting Israel

...And what the country is doing to prepare.