Israel to Shut Down Once more as 2nd Coronavirus Wave Hits

TEL AVIV—Israel on Friday is to alter into the predominant developed country to impose a 2nd nationwide lockdown, as its executive struggles to salvage a new coronavirus outbreak that has hammered the economic system and divided the nation.

The lockdown, which will last as a minimum thru early October, objectives to discontinuance mass gatherings right thru the Jewish holidays that open up at sunset Friday. This could well well lengthen thru Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Sukkot—holidays that on the general salvage hundreds of hundreds of Jewish worshipers attending synagogues and gathering…