Israel to Enter Second Virus Lockdown After Bungled Reopen
- Lockdown to begin Friday and last at least three weeks
- Some ailing businesses, ultra-Orthodox may defy lockdown
Shoppers crowd an alley of Jerusalem's main market on Sept. 11.
Photographer: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images
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Israel’s cabinet voted to impose a second nationwide lockdown starting Friday to try to tamp down a raging coronavirus outbreak, brushing aside appeals from both a business world warning of economic strangulation, and the powerful ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.