13 members of the radical 'Jerusalem Faction' branch have been detained during an anti-draft protest in Bnei Brak.Police used crowd dispersal methods including spraying participants with water cannons to reopen Road 4 blocked by protesters.

A newly-released poll shows the Likud party down to 28 seats while Gideon Sa'ar's New Hope is up to 19.Blue & White barely scrapes past the voting threshold with 5 seats, while Yamina remains at 13.

Coalition Chairman MK Miki Zohar attacked the Education Committee's decision to repeal the government's regulation regarding fifth- to tenth-grade studies in-school during the upcoming COVID-19 lockdown."I see the conduct of MK Ram Shefa's Education Committee (the Ine that acted contrary to Gantz's directive in the vote to extend the Knesset's life) and the bizarre instructions by Benny Gantz (which are miraculously accepted this time) and I understand what we see before our eyes: Anarchy, lack of judgment, and populism that endangers everything that the Prime Minister and the Likud are doing to get us out of the COVID-19 crisis."

A Kremlin source reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin has received the locally-produced Sputnik-V coronavirus vaccine.

Afik Shaul, brother of Oron Shaul, whose remains are being held by the Hamas terrorist org. after he was killed in action during Operation Protective Edge in 2014, arrived at the Turkish embassy in Israel to appeal to Turkish president Erdogan.Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is known for having close ties to Hamas.

Asked whether Benny Gantz should be replaced as party leader, Zamir evades question.

Chief Rabbi had stated: "Main requirement of city rabbi is that he is expert in Jewish law, not an IDF officer or hesder yeshiva graduate."

Min of Health, MK Yuli Edelstein, blasted the Blue and White party for what he called their "populism in the face of a national crisis."Edelstein said that while Israel has reached the highest percentage of vaccinations out of every 100 individuals and was leading the world in the area, Blue and White were "behaving irresponsibly without carrying for the wellbeing of the population."