(Jerusalem Post) Lahav Harkov - When Israel first started pulling up the drawbridges, it was taking the most extreme measures in the West to contain COVID-19. Prof. Eytan Gilboa of the BESA Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University noted, "The international media both praised and criticized the Israeli measures, which at the beginning seemed to be too extreme, but following the disastrous spread of the virus in Italy and across several states in Europe, coupled with the relative Israeli success in fighting the epidemic, the criticism has disappeared and has been replaced with more interest and understanding."
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