- Nazareth.
Jesus' boyhood home.
It's also Israel's largest Arab city.
About 30% of the populationhere is Christian
and 70% Muslim.
And like the rest of thecountry, it's under lockdown.
- Let's just say thatthe virus don't divide
between Jews, Arabs, Druze.
It comes to all themunicipalities in Israel.
- [Julie] During the first lockdown,
the Homefront Command went door-to-door,
delivering food and providing services
to individual citizens.
- It's an emergency situation
and the Homefront Commandis used, is trained,
is aimed to deal with emergency
as we see on borders during war.
But now, we took themethods that we used to have
during real emergency likethe Second Lebanese War
and we kind of copy it tothe reality of the Corona.
- [Julie] RegionalCommander Elad Edri says
this time, their mission is bigger.
- We coordinate between the municipalities
and the Israeli government,which provides a lot of help
in different kinds of ways.
We are here with them.
They don't have to dealwith this situation alone.
It's a kind of cooperation between the IDF
and the municipalities.
- [Julie] They're processingsome 50,000 COVID tests a day,
seven times the numberhandled in the first wave.
Homefront Command also gets
key information out to the public.
Major Muli Paz is heading that campaign
in Nazareth and elsewhere.
- I help the citizens tounderstand we are in Corona time.
We are pass busy stores.
We are meeting people.
We explain what is theCorona, how much is danger,
and we give them masks.
To the kids, we give balloons.
- [Julie] And how are they being received?
- The citizens in Nazarethis very disciplined.
They waiting for us to come to them
and to talk with them, to explain them.
They're great.
They're really great.
- [Julie] Dr. Najib Nasrallahheads up the emergency room
at the English Christianmissionary hospital in Nazareth.
- I know how to treat heart attack,
road accidents, everything, you know.
It's normal.
We studied in our schools,the school of medicine
and in the hospitals, butthis new area of cooperation
that you have to work withall the country together,
with the Homefront and withthe IDF, with the policies.
- [Julie] Nasrallah saysall Israeli hospitals
needed help badly and are nowcoordinating with each other.
- We really take this helps from the IDF
or Ministry of Health andother, you know, offices
in the country and we cooperate very good.
- [Julie] Nasrallahsays the Arab population
can often have bad feelingstoward the police and IDF,
but things have changed.
- But really, in this situation,we overcome these things.
It's important that theArab population didn't think
that the IDF is going to attack here,
and that was importantthat, in this situation,
we are all together in onewar against the Corona.
I think it's very good thingbecause, the bottom line,
people want to live together.
- [Julie] Julie Stahl, CBNNews, Nazareth, Israel.
