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02 April 2020 The head of Mossad, Yossi Cohen, is in quarantine. The analysis after the meeting, a few days ago, with the Minister of Health, Yaakov Litzman, who last night discovered that he had tested positive for coronavirus. The Israeli media report it.

71-year-old Orthodox rabbi Litzman is now in quarantine with his wife, according to the Israeli health ministry.

The director general of the ministry, Yaakov Barsimantov, is also quarantined in a room set up inside the Sheba medical center, in Telha-Shomer in Tel Aviv.

"We had been considering getting infections early," said Barsimantov, who continues to work from the hospital.

In the meantime, Israel is raising the sums of the coronavirus victims to date. There are 30 deaths in the Ministry of Health bulletin. There are 6,211 infections, of which 107 are in serious condition.