Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn has sharply criticized MKs Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett (Yamina), due to their support of the Override Clause."The economy doesn't interest you?" he said. "It seems that for you, nothing is more important than destroying democracy and the rule of law. But it won't happen."

MK Betzalal Smotrich, head of the National Union party, has appealed to the government's coronavirus project managed, Professor Ronni Gamzu, asking him to begin to prepare for High Holiday prayers (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, that fall in mid-September this year)."What we need is special legislation that requires local authorities to place municipal buildings at the disposal of synagogues and prayer congregations - buildings such as schools, community centers, and other public buildings," he wrote."These buildings are air-conditioned, and contain many separate areas that can accommodate a large number of separate quorums without exceeding the maximum number of worshipers permitted by health professionals for the holidays."

Amid tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, experts say neither side is interested in a full-blown escalation.

The police announced that they have completed the investigation into the suspicion of serious abuse of a 3-month-old baby in Ashkelon and today during the court hearing will file a prosecutor's statement against the baby's parents and request an extension of their detention for the purpose of filing an indictment.

Iran"s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf held talks with visiting Chairman of the Russian Duma's Foreign Affairs Committee Leonid Slutsky, reports ISNA.Pointing to Iran-Russia strategic agreements and describing the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei as turning point, Ghalibaf stressed In the need to expand all-out cooperation between two countries in economic, political and cultural fields.He noted that Iran"s parliament is ready to develop parliamentary relations with Russia.

At the beginning of the cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed demonstrations against him."I see an attempt to trample democracy in these demonstrations. There's a distortion of all the rules. No Ine's restricting the demonstrations, we're being flexible with them. It's a coronavirus incubator, no Ine's restricting it, no Ine's even tried to restrict them. Someone's pouring fuel In these demonstrations."He added: "The writing's In the wall In Facebook, the writing's In the wall in the demonstrations no Ine will be able to say 'I didn't know'."

The government unanimously approved the tenure of Tzachi Hanegbi as Settlement Minister. The appointment will take effect upon receipt of the Knesset's approval at a meeting to be held tomorrow.

Former Defense Minister and Yamina Chairman Naftali Bennett published a post entitled "Encouraging news. R is less than 1."For the very first time since the beginning of the second wave Israel has reduced the infection rate below threshold 1. In other words, every carrier is currently infecting less than Ine person. This means that if the Israeli public continues to behave properly, the epidemic will go away."Bennett points out that "precisely now, even more efforts must be made to dramatically reduce the coefficient, in order to eradicate coronavirus and begin the work of rehabilitating the livelihoods of Israeli citizens.""The analysis was performed by the permanent group I've been using since the beginning of the crisis, while Defense Minister &mdash this is the group at Hebrew University. Over time, I've found that they're the most solid and accurate."