Health Ministry warns against "unnecessary overseas travel" to keep COVID variants at bay. Israel, Bahrain to recognize each other's COVID-19 vaccination programs, allowing the vaccinated to travel without restriction between countries.
The new push to have a special vote just for prime minister would deliver the incumbent an easy victory, although it is unclear if this would end Israel's political paralysis.
At meeting of Health Ministry's epidemiology division, Professor Eli Somech presents model showing some 12,000 Israelis would have lost their lives to the coronavirus pandemic were not for country's vaccination campaign.
How can one take you seriously if you contradict yourself?" Netanyahu laments after Yamina leader says he might partner with Left.
"Bennett refuses to support the only solution to the political deadlock that does not involve destroying the Right: a quick vote to elect a prime minister that does not involve the dissolution of the Knesset and another round of elections," Likud's statement says.
With supplies secure through 2022, Israel no longer needs the 10 million doses it agreed to purchase from AstraZeneca, coronavirus chief Professor Nachman Ash says.
Estonia could have been picked as the first country to get the vaccine, but PM Netanyahu and former Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer persuaded Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla that Israel's emergency experience and population diversity made it a better bet.
Ra'am says it will not support PM Benjamin Netanyahu's idea to hold a direct election for prime minister.
Pfizer says its vaccine is safe, effective and produces robust antibody responses in 12- to 15-year-olds.
"We will promote, together with the UK, mutual recognition of vaccines to allow tourists and business people from both countries to return to their routines safely," Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi says.
