- 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 Home Front Command went door to door,
delivering food and providing services
to individual citizens.
- It's an emergency situation,
and the Home Front Commandis used, is trained,
is aimed to deal with emergency
as we see on borders during war,
but now we took the methodsthat we used to have
during a real emergency,like the second Lebanese war,
and we kind of copy it tothe reality of the corona.
- [Julie] Regional CommanderElad 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 theIDF and the municipalities.
- [Julie] They are processingsome 50,000 COVID tests a day,
seven times the numberhandled in the first wave.
Home Front Command also gets
key information out to the public.
Major Muli Paz is heading that campaign
in Nazareth and elsewhere.
- I'm helping the citizen to understand
we are in a corona time.
We pass business stores,we are meeting people.
We explain what is it, thecorona, how much is danger?
And we're giving masks.
To the kids we give balloons.
- [Julie] And how are they being received?
- The citizens in Nazarethis very disciplined.
They're waiting for us to come to them
and to talk with them, to explain to them.
They're great, they're really great.
- Dr. Najib Nasrallahheads up the emergency room
at the English ChristianMissionary Hospital in Nazareth.
- I know how to treat heart attack,
road accident, everything,you know, it's normal.
We studied in our schools,
school of medicine, in hospitals,
but this new area of cooperation
that you have to work withall the country together,
with the Home Front and withthe IDF, with the polices.
- Nasrallah says all Israelihospitals needed help badly
and are now coordinating with each other.
- We really take this helps from the IDF
or Ministry of Health and other, 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 these situations,
we overcome these things.
It's important that the Arab population,
they didn't felt that theIDF is going to attack them,
and that was importantthat in this situation
we are all together in onewar against the corona.
I think it's a very good thing because
the bottom line, peoplewant to live together.
- [Julie] Julie Stahl, CBNNews, Nazareth, Israel.
