JERUSALEM POST
Is Israel at the forefront of coronavirus measures?
by Lahav Harkov
March 13, 2020

…After the government announced it was stopping flights from China, there was talk about adverse diplomatic effects. China is very sensitive to its image in the world, and as a result, Israel made efforts to show that its problem was with the virus, not all of China. Those efforts included a video, produced by the Foreign Ministry, of Israelis saying that they stand with the Chinese in this difficult time; it was such a success that major Chinese newspapers and official TV channels reported on it. Israeli aid organizations also tried to send supplies to Wuhan, where COVID-19 first broke out. READ MORE

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