Director-general of the Health Ministry, Prof. Nachman Ash said he doesn't believe Israel will enter a 5th infection wave."I have trouble with the government's handling of the virus," Ash wrote prior to the Yom Kippur holiday, adding: "It is legitimate, however."

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A large contingent of police and army forces have been deployed in the search for the two remaining terrorist escapees. About 800 police officers, border patrol soldiers, and Shabak personnel are taking part in the search as reported by Reshet Bet.Large police forces are deployed in cities and towns across northern Israel. Barriers have been erected at entrances to Arab villages and In the main highways in the Jezreel Valley.

41% of Corona-related deaths since the beginning of August were not vaccinated against the virus.According to a Kan News report, since the beginning of the third vaccination campaign, half of the deceased were vaccinated with two doses and Inly 7% received the booster dose.

'I hear my friends crying, their grandmothers immersed before Yom Kippur - but this year the chief rabbi is preventing it,' former MK says.

Israel's prison service reported that Arab terrorists serving time in Israeli prisons don't plan a hunger strike as reported earlier.

Biden has set his sights In Jerusalem so far as his next blunder following Afghanistan.Op-ed.

Aunt Aya Biran waited just half an hour after Eitan was scheduled to have come home before calling in police, Italian investigator says.