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Who would have thought a few weeks ago we’d wake up one morning and suddenly find ourselves in a Netflix horror film? That our cities would be placed under quarantine and would become completely empty in a single day? That’s we’d all be sitting at home, day after day, from morning to night, not changing out of our pajamas? That we would be banned from visiting our grandmothers? That we would pray through the nights for this nightmare to end?

In the spring of 2020 we suddenly realized we are all the same, Lithuanians and Israelis, Germans and Italians, Chinese, Russians and Arabs. We are all people. We know how to make rockets and smart apps, but we are really such fragile creatures who fear death and hide from a tiny little virus which is going around and could affect us. We are the new dinosaurs whose time has probably come.

We suddenly realized most of our disputes aren’t important, like those of children in the sandbox. Fighting for half a mountain or half a lake. We in Israel were not surprised at all when terror attacks from the Gaza Strip fell dramatically, by 90%! When we see frightened and weeping Iranians on the streets of Tehran, they are in our hearts. We and they are in the same boat, we are all victims of an external attack.

More than 71,000 Israelis are under quarantine compared to almost 75,000 Israelis reported under quarantine on Monday. In total more than 135,000 people have spent time in isolation. Monday morning it was reported more people are emerging from isolation than entering. The number of cases grew because of increased diagnosis, with 3,743 people tested over 24 hours. Monday morning it was reported 3,230 had been tested over the previous 24 hours. On Tuesday the total number of infected jumped to 1,656. Virus statistics are usually updated twice daily, in the morning and evening, and on Tuesday morning 214 infections were reported over the previous 12 hours.