Ismail “Sam” Mousa is very worried. The 48-year-old Uber driver and Subway worker from Delaware has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which means contracting the coronavirus could be deadly for him.
He is in self-quarantine at his sister's house in the West Bank, but his medication is running out — with no way to get more — and travel restrictions have blocked him from returning to the U.S.
With the help of U.S. diplomatic officials, Mousa and his 12-year-old daughter, Anisa, have been granted permission to fly home later this week from Tel Aviv, Israel — if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't lock down the country to contain the spread of the coronavirus. “If I get the virus, I will be gone,” Mousa said in a telephone