Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman, Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, and MK Walid Taha are to meet this evening at nine o'clock to discuss the coalition crisis surrounding the Electricity Law.The United Arab List, whose four votes the coalition needs to ensure its majority, is insisting that the Law be passed in a fashion that allows illegally built Bedouin homes in the Negev to connect to the power grid, something that Shaked has said she will not consent to.

Pieces of wood and paper fragments inscribed with Hebrew letters were unearthed during road work in Zuelpich, Germany.

According to Prof. Salman Zarka, Israel's COVID Czar, 155,000 children (between the ages of 5 and 11) have received a COVID shot so far."We are in the process of acquiring more vaccine doses from Pfizer," Zarka said, "and we have requested the assistance of the Defense Ministry in obtaining help from the military medical corps."We're now in the run-up to the New Year's festivities," he noted, "times when large numbers of people tend to gather, and we're likely to pay a high price for them. During the next two to three weeks, we have to tighten our belts we have to enhance our healthcare systems, add to the numbers of staff working ECMO machines..."We would like to see Green Pass restrictions applied to the public sector, and to have at leats 50 percent of people working from home," he added.

The Hermon site, which closed following the Carmel storm, will be open to visitors Inly In Thursday.The height of the snow In the lower level is about 25 cm, In the upper level about 50 cm.

Total number of Omicron cases reported in Israel rises to 221, with 775 more suspected cases of the variant detected.

America's leaders seem to have little grasp of geopolitical concerns, while NATO has actually caused the avoidable Ukraine crisis. Op-ed.

MK Yoav Kish (Likud) has attacked the Bennett government for its handling of the COVID epidemic."The government has failed with the Omicron variant," Kish alleged. "During the fourth wave, the goverment merely 'advised' and didn't do anything - and the Israeli public payed a high price, an unnecessary price, in terms of people who fell ill and died."Now, with the Omicron variant, it's time they took action, before things get out of control and are unstoppable," he said. "Unfortunately, there is no leadership in this government, no decision-making all they do is tell stories. And, as usual, we are paying the price."

This evening, Reshet 13 will be broadcasting a documentary investigation into the former head of the Mossad, Yossi Cohen, In its "Mekor" program.An attempt to prevent the television channel from going ahead with the broadcast via the courts failed.