Lockdown

Tokyo drift: Black bear that sent Japanese city into lockdown, sparked multi-day search, captured

The adult bear, which was estimated to weigh about 100 kg, was eventually shot with a tranquilizer gun, loaded onto a cage on a truck, and driven away. It is unclear what the city will do with it.

Black bear at Yellowstone Park, photographed May 22, 2026. (Illustrative)
 A US B-2 Spirit bomber, part of the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, stops for refueling at the US military base on Diego Garcia in this file photo taken October 8, 2001, following an air strike mission over Afghanistan.

Lockdown lifted following reported active shooter situation at New Jersey air force base

Incoming freshmen march to their living quarters after the Oath of Office ceremony during Induction Day at the U.S. Naval Academy on June 26, 2025 in Annapolis, Maryland.

US naval academy on lockdown following report of armed intruder - report

 Illustrative image of people in an office.

An end to remote work? Even Zoom employees are asked to return to office


UK PM Johnson under fire over 'bring your own booze' lockdown party

At the time of the gathering, schools were shut to most pupils, and pubs and restaurants were closed, with strict controls on social mixing.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson appears on BBC TV's The Andrew Marr Show in London, UK, January 3, 2021

Israel is in a de-facto lockdown - editorial

PM Naftali Bennett is determined not to put Israel into lockdown, but the situation is very close to the lockdowns in 2020.

 Closed down shops at the Azrieli shopping mall  on December 27, 2020, as Israel enters its 3rd nationawide lockdown, in an effort to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.

Gal Gadot admits her 'Imagine' celebrity video 'was in poor taste'

The Wonder Woman actress posted the video nearly two years ago with other notable celebrities singing as a response to the first major lockdown of the pandemic, which drew widespread media criticism.

Actor Gal Gadot arrives to attend the National Board of Review awards gala in New York, U.S., January 9, 2018

2021 was the year of the coronavirus vaccine

“I think we are in a revolution that no one believed would happen.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein pose for a photograph with Janet Lavi-Azulay, 34, the 5 millionth Israeli to get the Pfize vaccine, in Tel Aviv on March 8

Bennett: We’ll make every effort to keep the economy open

'We got through the Delta variant without a single day of lockdown. We didn’t close businesses and we didn’t close the education system,' Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday.

 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the cabinet meeting, December 5, 2021.

Who benefits from COVID hypocrisy?

Even if governments beat the pandemic, they may find the long aftershock has been set in motion. 

Right-wing chairman and candidate for prime minister, Naftali Bennett, now votes in Raanana accompanied by his wife Gilat

Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company back with COVID-inspired performance

It was only after the coronavirus limitations were lifted that Rami Be’er could take stock of what had happened.

 Illusion, dance responds to the pandemic.

Did Israel harm ties with Diaspora Jews by closings doors during COVID? - analysis

Israel is supposed to be the homeland for all the Jewish people. Perhaps it is time that the government rolled out the welcome mat.

A passenger at Ben Gurion Airport

The lion tunnel: A short story

This story is an excerpt from the upcoming novel A Hard Day’s Life. 

 ‘SINCE WE can’t, he likes to  drive through this tunnel.’

COVID lockdown demonstrated old-fashioned gender behavioral patterns

The lockdown served as a live social experiment, Austrian researchers say, and revealed men-women behavioral differences.

A woman wears a protective mask during the coronavirus pandemic