Coronavirus Cabinet to discuss reinstating GPS tracking for those found to have contracted new 'Omicron' variant.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's remarks at the start of the Corona Cabinet meeting regarding new Covid-19 variant

The Minister of Defense will light the first candle of Hanukkah tomorrow with the soldiers of the Netzah Yehudah Battalion together with Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi and other senior officers. Before this, Gantz will light a candle at the Western Wall alongside Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich and the Chief Rabbis of Israel.

Interior Min. Shaked says Israel will add three weeks to next year's Daylight Saving Time.

The chairman of the Association of Public Health Physicians, Prof. Hagai Levin, commented In the new strain of COVID-19. "Omicron, a new strain of corona, is a cause for concern in Israel and around the world. The threat should be taken seriously, morbidity monitoring among returnees from abroad and within Israel should be improved by strengthening the epidemiological system and making decisions based In the data collected." "There is no need to intimidate or repeat past mistakes, such as involving the ISA - a move that ultimately proved ineffective."

Czechia has reported its first confirmed case of the new variant.

Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar intends not to support the cabinet decisions regarding new public health regulations. "Our main effort must be vaccination. I oppose any changes at Ben-Gurion Airport or the involvement of the ISA," he commented.

Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in the coronavirus cabinet meeting that he opposes any new restrictions, calling instead for Israelis to live with the virus under present regulations.