we re doing right now. joining me now is raph sanchez and josh letterman who is with president biden in nantucket. msnbc medical contributor and politico chief economic correspondent. thank you for being here. raph, you re in israel. the first cases were found outside of africa in israel and belgium. i know tel aviv and israel is shutting down travel from south africa. what else is happening there? yeah. katy, israel s government is moving more aggressively than any other. they re stopping travel from pretty much every country in africa with only a handful of exceptions. this comes after one confirmed case, two suspected cases of that new variant. the confirmed case in a traveler who returned recently from ma law way. now, all three of those people are in isolation.